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title: Their luggage the _voyageurs_ bore down the long, winding path of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Their luggage the _voyageurs_ bore down the long, winding path of the portage, [a] While they mingled their song with the roar of the turbid and turbulent waters. Who acts: Ojibways, turbid waters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 34

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Their luggage the \_voyageurs\_ bore down the long, winding path of the portage, \[a\] While they mingled their song with the roar of the turbid and turbulent waters.

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**Who acts:** Ojibways, turbid waters · **What happens:** wind, mingle, sing, roar · **To what, where:** path, song, luggage

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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, turbid waters), 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:pg8122:13:34
# text = Their luggage the _voyageurs_ bore down the long, winding path of the portage, [a] While they mingled their song with the roar of the turbid and turbulent waters.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | gerund |  | path of the portage |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 2 | **mingle** | past | Ojibways *= ojibway* | Ojibways's song |  |  |  | with the roar of the turbid waters | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent song=Patient with roar=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **sing** |  | Ojibways *= ojibway* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **roar** |  | the turbid waters |  |  |  |  |  | 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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