--- title: When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn in his lodge at the Meeting-of-Waters; [a] And when from the Sunrise again comes the chief of the suns of the Morning, Many moons will his hunters remain in the land of the friendly --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/) / 24 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 24 When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn in his lodge at the Meeting-of-Waters; \[a\] And when from the Sunrise again comes the chief of the suns of the Morning, Many moons will his hunters remain in the land of the friendly Dakotas. **Who acts:** cold winds, white robes, hunters · **What happens:** toss, burn, come, remain, wind, fire · **To what, where:** a, lodge, chief, land, winter return, White Chief This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold winds, white robes, hunters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:12:24 # text = When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn in his lodge at the Meeting-of-Waters; [a] And when from the Sunrise again comes the chief of the suns of the Morning, Many moons will his hunters remain in the land of the friendly Dakotas. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 toss toss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 prairies prairie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 White White PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 31 Meeting Meeting PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Waters Water PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 And and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 when when SCONJ WRB _ 46 mark _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Sunrise Sunrise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 45 again again ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 suns sun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Morning Morning PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 moons moon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 conj _ _ 58 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 59 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nsubj _ _ 61 remain remain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 62 in in ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 65 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 Dakotas Dakotas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toss** | infinitive | the cold winds of winter return | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **burn** | future | the white robes of the prairies and the fire of the White Chief | a | | wind's lodge | | at the Meeting Waters | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lodge=Location | | 3 | **come** | present | the white robes of the prairies and the fire of the White Chief *not said here* | the chief of the suns of the Morning and Many moons | | | again | from the Sunrise | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme | | 4 | **remain** | future | wind's hunters | the chief of the suns of the Morning and Many moons *not said here* | | the land of the friendly Dakotas | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chief=Attribute | | 5 | **wind** | | | winter return | | | | | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **fire** | | | the White Chief | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/25/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)