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title: Then merrily rose the blithe song of the _voyageurs_ homeward return… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then merrily rose the blithe song of the _voyageurs_ homeward returning, And thus, as they glided along, sang the bugle-voiced boatmen in chorus: Who acts: homeward, warriors, _ voyageurs. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 56

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Then merrily rose the blithe song of the \_voyageurs\_ homeward returning, And thus, as they glided along, sang the bugle-voiced boatmen in chorus:

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**Who acts:** homeward, warriors, \_ voyageurs · **What happens:** rise, return, glide, sing, voice · **To what, where:** blithe song, voiced boatmen, chorus

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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 (homeward, warriors, \_ voyageurs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:12:57
# text = Then merrily rose the blithe song of the _voyageurs_ homeward returning, And thus, as they glided along, sang the bugle-voiced boatmen in chorus:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
12	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	voiced	voice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  | the blithe song of the \_ voyageurs and homeward |  |  | then | merrily, thus *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | homeward *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glide** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | the voiced boatmen |  | chorus |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boatman=Theme |
| 5 | **voice** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | bugle *compound* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** |  | the \_ voyageurs and homeward |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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