--- title: So pull away, boatmen; bend to the oar; Merry is the life of the gay… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: So pull away, boatmen; bend to the oar; Merry is the life of the gay _voyageur_. Who acts: you, Merry. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/70/) [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/) / 70 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 70 So pull away, boatmen; bend to the oar; Merry is the life of the gay \_voyageur\_. **Who acts:** you, Merry · **What happens:** pull away, bend, be · **To what, where:** boatmen, oar, life 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 (you, Merry), 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:pg8122:12:71 # text = So pull away, boatmen; bend to the oar; Merry is the life of the gay _voyageur_. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 boatmen boatman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bend bend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 oar oar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Merry Merry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gay gay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 voyageur voyageur NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull away** | imperative | you *not said here* | boatmen | | | | voyageur *obl*; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | the oar | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to oar=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | Merry | the life | | | | of the gay | tree rules | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/71/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)