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title: The rising moon gleams, weird and still o'er the dusky horizon; Thro… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The rising moon gleams, weird and still o'er the dusky horizon; Through the hushed, somber forest she beams, and fitfully gloams on the meadows; And a dim, glimmering pathway she paves, at times, on the dark stretch of river. Who acts: she, dim glimmering pathway. A sentence of «Legends of the North
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 2

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The rising moon gleams, weird and still o'er the dusky horizon; Through the hushed, somber forest she beams, and fitfully gloams on the meadows; And a dim, glimmering pathway she paves, at times, on the dark stretch of river.

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**Who acts:** she, dim glimmering pathway · **What happens:** rise, hush, beam, glimmer, pave · **To what, where:** hushed somber forest, dark stretch

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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 (she, dim glimmering pathway), 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:pg8122:13:2
# text = The rising moon gleams, weird and still o'er the dusky horizon; Through the hushed, somber forest she beams, and fitfully gloams on the meadows; And a dim, glimmering pathway she paves, at times, on the dark stretch of river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	somber	somber	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	beams	beam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	fitfully	fitfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	gloams	gloam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	glimmering	glimmer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	paves	pave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **beam** | present | she | the hushed somber forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 4 | **glimmer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pave** | present | a dim glimmering pathway |  |  | the dark stretch of river | time | pathway *nsubj* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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