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title: On the slopes of the emerald shores leafy woodlands and prairies alt… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the slopes of the emerald shores leafy woodlands and prairies alternate; On the vine-tangled islands the flowers peep timidly out at the white men; In the dark-winding eddy the loon sits warily, watching and voiceless, And the wild goose, in reedy lagoon, stills the prattle and play of her childr
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 83

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On the slopes of the emerald shores leafy woodlands and prairies alternate; On the vine-tangled islands the flowers peep timidly out at the white men; In the dark-winding eddy the loon sits warily, watching and voiceless, And the wild goose, in reedy lagoon, stills the prattle and play of her children.

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**Who acts:** leafy woodlands, flowers, loon, children · **What happens:** shore, alternate, tangle, peep, wind, sit · **To what, where:** slopes, wild goose, winding eddy, prattle

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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 (leafy woodlands, flowers, loon, children), 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:pg8122:12:84
# text = On the slopes of the emerald shores leafy woodlands and prairies alternate; On the vine-tangled islands the flowers peep timidly out at the white men; In the dark-winding eddy the loon sits warily, watching and voiceless, And the wild goose, in reedy lagoon, stills the prattle and play of her children.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	shores	shore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	alternate	alternate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	On	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	peep	peep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
30	In	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	eddy	eddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
39	warily	warily	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	voiceless	voiceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	reedy	reedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	stills	still	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	prattle	prattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shore** | present |  |  |  | the slopes of the emerald |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **alternate** | present | leafy woodlands and prairies |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | vine *compound* | tree rules |
| 4 | **peep** | present | the flowers |  |  |  |  | at the white men; on the tangled islands; out *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on island=Theme |
| 5 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sit** | present | the loon | the wild goose and reedy lagoon |  | the winding eddy |  | warily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eddy=Location |
| 7 | **watch** | gerund | the loon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **still** | present | the loon *not said here* | the prattle and play of loon's children |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prattle=Patient |
| 9 | **play** |  | loon's children |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «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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