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title: Over meadow and ice-covered mere, through the thickets of red oak an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Over meadow and ice-covered mere, through the thickets of red oak and hazel, She followed the tracks of the deer, but like phantoms they fled from her vision. Who acts: Ta, tracks. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 26

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Over meadow and ice-covered mere, through the thickets of red oak and hazel, She followed the tracks of the deer, but like phantoms they fled from her vision.

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**Who acts:** Ta, tracks · **What happens:** cover, follow, flee · **To what, where:** tracks, meadow, vision

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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 (Ta, tracks), 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:pg8122:14:26
# text = Over meadow and ice-covered mere, through the thickets of red oak and hazel, She followed the tracks of the deer, but like phantoms they fled from her vision.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	phantoms	phantom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | ice *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Ta | the tracks of the deer |  | meadow and covered mere and the thickets of red oak and hazel |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme over meadow=Trajectory |
| 3 | **flee** | past | tracks *= track* |  |  | Ta's vision |  | like phantoms | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from vision=Initial\_Location |

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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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