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title: Up the still flowing Wákpa Wakán's winding path through the groves a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Up the still flowing Wákpa Wakán's winding path through the groves and the meadows. 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.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 85

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Up the still flowing Wákpa Wakán's winding path through the groves and the meadows.

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**What happens:** flow, wind · **To what, where:** path, groves

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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: 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:pg8122:12:86
# text = Up the still flowing Wákpa Wakán's winding path through the groves and the meadows.
1	Up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Wákpa	Wákpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wakán	Wakán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | 's Wákpa Wakán | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wind** | gerund |  | path |  | the groves and the meadows |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme through grove=Trajectory |

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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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