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title: Still onward they speed to the Dalles --to the roar of the white-rol… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Still onward they speed to the Dalles --to the roar of the white-rolling rapids, Where the dark river tumbles and falls down the ragged ravine of the mountains, And singing his wild jubilee to the low-moaning pines and the cedars, Rushes on to the unsalted sea o'er the ledges upheaved by volcanoes. 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 33

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Still onward they speed to the Dalles --to the roar of the white-rolling rapids, Where the dark river tumbles and falls down the ragged ravine of the mountains, And singing his wild jubilee to the low-moaning pines and the cedars, Rushes on to the unsalted sea o'er the ledges upheaved by volcanoes.

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**Who acts:** Ojibways, dark river, rolling rapids · **What happens:** speed, roll, tumble, fall down, sing, moan · **To what, where:** ragged ravine, wild jubilee, moaning pines, ledges

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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 (Ojibways, dark river, rolling rapids), 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:pg8122:13:33
# text = Still onward they speed to the Dalles --to the roar of the white-rolling rapids, Where the dark river tumbles and falls down the ragged ravine of the mountains, And singing his wild jubilee to the low-moaning pines and the cedars, Rushes on to the unsalted sea o'er the ledges upheaved by volcanoes.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	speed	speed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dalles	Dalles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tumbles	tumble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	jubilee	jubilee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	amod	_	_
44	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
50	on	on	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	unsalted	unsalted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
55	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	ledges	ledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
58	upheaved	upheav	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | present | Ojibways *= ojibway* |  |  |  | still | to the Dalles *result*; the roar of the rolling rapids *parataxis*; onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to dalles=Result |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tumble** | present | the dark river |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fall down** | present | the dark river *not said here* | the ragged ravine of the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ravine=Result |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Ojibways *= ojibway* *not said here* | Lake's wild jubilee | the moaning pines and the cedars and Rushes |  |  | to the unsalted sea; o'er the ledges | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jubilee=Topic to pine=Recipient |
| 6 | **moan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **upheav** | participle |  | the ledges *not said here* |  |  |  | by volcanoes | tree rules |
| 8 | **roar** |  | the rolling rapids |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event 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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