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title: From the meadows and wide-prairied plains, for their long southward… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the meadows and wide-prairied plains, for their long southward journey preparing, In croaking flocks gather the cranes, and choose with loud clamor their leaders. Who acts: long southward journey, croaking flocks, plains. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Fe
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 54

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From the meadows and wide-prairied plains, for their long southward journey preparing, In croaking flocks gather the cranes, and choose with loud clamor their leaders.

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**Who acts:** long southward journey, croaking flocks, plains · **What happens:** prepare, gather, choose, journey · **To what, where:** cranes, meadows

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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 (long southward journey, croaking flocks, plains), 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:pg8122:13:54
# text = From the meadows and wide-prairied plains, for their long southward journey preparing, In croaking flocks gather the cranes, and choose with loud clamor their leaders.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	prairied	prairied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	southward	southward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	croaking	croaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	clamor	clamor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | gerund | plains's long southward journey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gather** | present | croaking flocks | the cranes |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | infinitive | croaking flocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with loud clamor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **journey** |  | plains *= plain* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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