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title: Like magás [b] ride the birchen canoes on the breast of the dark Git… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like magás [b] ride the birchen canoes on the breast of the dark Gitchee Seebee; By the willow-fringed islands they cruise by the grassy hills green to their summits; By the lofty bluffs hooded with oaks that darken the deep with their shadows; And bright in the sun gleam the strokes of the oars in 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 117

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Like magás \[b\] ride the birchen canoes on the breast of the dark Gitchee Seebee; By the willow-fringed islands they cruise by the grassy hills green to their summits; By the lofty bluffs hooded with oaks that darken the deep with their shadows; And bright in the sun gleam the strokes of the oars in the hands of the women.

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**Who acts:** magás, canoe, oaks · **What happens:** ride, fringe, cruise, hood, darken, gleam · **To what, where:** birchen canoes, breast, lofty bluffs, deep, strokes, hands

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magás, canoe, oaks), 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:pg8122:14:117
# text = Like magás [b] ride the birchen canoes on the breast of the dark Gitchee Seebee; By the willow-fringed islands they cruise by the grassy hills green to their summits; By the lofty bluffs hooded with oaks that darken the deep with their shadows; And bright in the sun gleam the strokes of the oars in the hands of the women.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	magás	magá	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	birchen	birchen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Seebee	Seebee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	By	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cruise	cruise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	By	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	bluffs	bluff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
40	hooded	hood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	darken	darken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
51	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	advcl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	gleam	gleam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | magás | the birchen canoes |  | the breast of the dark |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Location |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | willow *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cruise** | present | canoe |  |  |  |  | by the fringed islands; by the grassy hills; by the lofty bluffs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hood** | participle |  | the lofty bluffs *not said here* |  |  |  | with oaks | tree rules |
| 5 | **darken** | present | oaks | the deep |  |  |  | with canoe's shadows | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent deep=Patient with shadow=Instrument |
| 6 | **gleam** | infinitive | canoe *not said here* | the strokes of the oars |  | the hands of the women |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme |
| 7 | **shadow** |  | canoe |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **stroke** |  |  | the oars |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act 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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