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title: Two hundred white winters and more have fled from the face of the Su… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hundred white winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer Since DuLuth, on that wild, somber shore, in the unbroken forest primeval, From the midst of the spruce and the pines, saw the smoke of the wigwams up-curling, Like the fumes from the temples and shrines of the Druids of old in
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 39

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Two hundred white winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer Since DuLuth, on that wild, somber shore, in the unbroken forest primeval, From the midst of the spruce and the pines, saw the smoke of the wigwams up-curling, Like the fumes from the temples and shrines of the Druids of old in their forests.

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**Who acts:** hundred white winters, wigwams · **What happens:** flee, see, smoke · **To what, where:** face, smoke

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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 (hundred white winters, wigwams), 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:pg8122:13:39
# text = Two hundred white winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer Since DuLuth, on that wild, somber shore, in the unbroken forest primeval, From the midst of the spruce and the pines, saw the smoke of the wigwams up-curling, Like the fumes from the temples and shrines of the Druids of old in their forests.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	somber	somber	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	From	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	shrines	shrine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	Druids	druid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present · perfect | hundred white winters |  |  | the face of the Summer | since DuLuth | wild somber shore  that *conj*; the unbroken forest primeval *conj*; the midst of the spruce and the pines *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | hundred white winters *not said here* | the smoke of the wigwams up curling |  |  |  | the fumes from the temples and shrines of the Druids *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 3 | **smoke** |  | the wigwams up curling |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon 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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