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title: When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn, in his lodge, at the Meeting-of-Waters. Who acts: cold winds, fire. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its de
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 85

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When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn, in his lodge, at the Meeting-of-Waters.

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**Who acts:** cold winds, fire · **What happens:** toss, burn, wind, fire · **To what, where:** white robes, lodge, winter return, White Chief

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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 (cold winds, fire), 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:pg8122:13:85
# text = When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn, in his lodge, at the Meeting-of-Waters.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	toss	toss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	Meeting	Meeting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Waters	Water	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **toss** | infinitive | the cold winds of winter return | the white robes of the prairies |  | fire's lodge |  | the Meeting Waters *conj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme in lodge=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | future | the fire of the White Chief | the white robes of the prairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **wind** |  |  | winter return |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **fire** |  |  | the White Chief |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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