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title: The Hard Moon [c] was past, but the moon when the coons make their t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hard Moon [c] was past, but the moon when the coons make their trails in the forest [d] Grew colder and colder. Who acts: Hard Moon, coons, forest. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 12

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The Hard Moon \[c\] was past, but the moon when the coons make their trails in the forest \[d\] Grew colder and colder.

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**Who acts:** Hard Moon, coons, forest · **What happens:** be, make, grow · **To what, where:** trails

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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 (Hard Moon, coons, forest), 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:pg8122:14:12
# text = The Hard Moon [c] was past, but the moon when the coons make their trails in the forest [d] Grew colder and colder.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hard	Hard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coons	coon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	d	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Hard Moon |  |  |  |  | the moon *obl*; past *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the coons | coons's trails |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trail=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the forest |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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