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title: Once more by the dark-rolling river Sits the Chief in the warm, drea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more by the dark-rolling river Sits the Chief in the warm, dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn; And the faithful dog lovingly lays his head at the feet of his master. Who acts: faithful dog, beautiful Summer. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 62

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Once more by the dark-rolling river Sits the Chief in the warm, dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn; And the faithful dog lovingly lays his head at the feet of his master.

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**Who acts:** faithful dog, beautiful Summer · **What happens:** roll, sit, lay, haze · **To what, where:** Chief, warm dreamy haze, head, feet

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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 (faithful dog, beautiful Summer), 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:pg8122:13:62
# text = Once more by the dark-rolling river Sits the Chief in the warm, dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn; And the faithful dog lovingly lays his head at the feet of his master.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	Sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	lovingly	lovingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present |  | the Chief |  | the warm dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn |  | by the rolling river; once *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme by river=Location |
| 3 | **lay** | present | the faithful dog | dog's head |  | the feet of dog's master |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 4 | **haze** |  | the beautiful Summer in 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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