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title: Not a breath stirs the leaves of the awe-stricken forest; The hushed… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a breath stirs the leaves of the awe-stricken forest; The hushed air is heavy with death; like the footsteps of death are the moments. " Who acts: breath, hushed air, footsteps. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 12

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Not a breath stirs the leaves of the awe-stricken forest; The hushed air is heavy with death; like the footsteps of death are the moments. "

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**Who acts:** breath, hushed air, footsteps · **What happens:** stir, hush, be · **To what, where:** leaves, moments

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breath, hushed air, footsteps), 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:pg8122:13:12
# text = Not a breath stirs the leaves of the awe-stricken forest; The hushed air is heavy with death; like the footsteps of death are the moments. "
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stirs	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | present | a breath | the leaves of the stricken forest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leaf=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the hushed air |  |  |  |  | with death; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the footsteps of death | the moments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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