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title: From his path in the skies the red sun looks down on Kathága, Asleep… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From his path in the skies the red sun looks down on Kathága, Asleep in the valley it lies, for the swift hunters follow the bison. Who acts: red sun, valley, swift hunters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 60

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From his path in the skies the red sun looks down on Kathága, Asleep in the valley it lies, for the swift hunters follow the bison.

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**Who acts:** red sun, valley, swift hunters · **What happens:** look down, lie, follow · **To what, where:** valley, bison

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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 (red sun, valley, swift hunters), 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:pg8122:13:60
# text = From his path in the skies the red sun looks down on Kathága, Asleep in the valley it lies, for the swift hunters follow the bison.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kathága	Kathága	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | present | the red sun |  |  |  |  | on Kathága; from Michabo's path in the skies; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from path=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | valley | the valley *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | present | the swift hunters | the bison |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=Theme |

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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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