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title: All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards. Who acts: sere, far northern marshes, Autumn. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 53

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All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards.

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**Who acts:** sere, far northern marshes, Autumn · **What happens:** be, flock down, haze · **To what, where:** prairies

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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 (sere, far northern marshes, Autumn), 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:pg8122:13:53
# text = All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sere	sere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	From	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flock	flock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mallards	mallard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | all sere | the prairies and the glimmer and haze of the Autumn |  |  |  | the glimmer and haze of the Autumn *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all sere *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flock down** | present | the far northern marshes |  |  |  |  | by thousands  the geese and the mallards | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **haze** |  | the Autumn |  |  |  |  |  | nom haze «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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