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title: The winds are asleep in the caves --in the heart of the far-away mou… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The winds are asleep in the caves --in the heart of the far-away mountains; And here on the meadows and there, the lazy mists gather and hover; And the lights of the Fen-Spirits [72] flare and dance on the low-lying marshes, As still as the footsteps of death by the bed of the babe and its mother; A
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 3

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The winds are asleep in the caves --in the heart of the far-away mountains; And here on the meadows and there, the lazy mists gather and hover; And the lights of the Fen-Spirits \[72\] flare and dance on the low-lying marshes, As still as the footsteps of death by the bed of the babe and its mother; And hushed are the pines, and beneath lie the weary limbed boatmen in slumber.

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**Who acts:** winds, lazy mists, beneath, weary · **What happens:** be, gather, hover, lie, hush, limb · **To what, where:** caves, pines, boatmen, slumber, Fen Spirits

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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 (winds, lazy mists, beneath, weary), 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:pg8122:13:3
# text = The winds are asleep in the caves --in the heart of the far-away mountains; And here on the meadows and there, the lazy mists gather and hover; And the lights of the Fen-Spirits [72] flare and dance on the low-lying marshes, As still as the footsteps of death by the bed of the babe and its mother; And hushed are the pines, and beneath lie the weary limbed boatmen in slumber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	hover	hover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	Fen	Fen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
42	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	flare	flare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	amod	_	_
53	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	As	as	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	still	still	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
69	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
70	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	73	punct	_	_
72	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
73	hushed	hush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
74	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	76	cop	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
78	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
79	beneath	beneath	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	80	nsubj	_	_
80	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	73	conj	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
82	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	nsubj	_	_
83	limbed	limb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	80	ccomp	_	_
84	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	83	obj	_	_
85	in	in	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
86	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the winds |  |  | the caves |  | the lights of the Fen Spirits *conj*; asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | present | the lazy mists |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hover** | present | the lazy mists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hush** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the pines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lie** | present | beneath |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **limb** | past | the weary | boatmen |  | slumber |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **light** |  |  | the Fen Spirits |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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