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title: Now a light, rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now a light, rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the wide, wimpling waters; Up the dark winding river DuLuth follows fast in the wake of Tamdóka. Who acts: light, DuLuth. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 82

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Now a light, rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the wide, wimpling waters; Up the dark winding river DuLuth follows fast in the wake of Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** light, DuLuth · **What happens:** rustle, shake, wimple, follow · **To what, where:** wind, South, wings, wake

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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 (light, DuLuth), 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:pg8122:12:83
# text = Now a light, rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the wide, wimpling waters; Up the dark winding river DuLuth follows fast in the wake of Tamdóka.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wimpling	wimple	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	Up	up	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | gerund | a light *not said here* | wind |  | the South |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wind=Theme from south=Source |
| 2 | **shake** | present | a light | light's wings |  |  |  | o'er the wide wimpling waters | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **wimple** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | present | DuLuth |  |  | the wake of Tamdóka |  | up the dark winding river; fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wake=Location |

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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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