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title: In the gloam of the morning again on the trail of the red-deer she f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the gloam of the morning again on the trail of the red-deer she followed-- All day long through the thickets in vain, for the gray wolves were chasing the roebucks; And the cold, hungry winds from the plain chased the wolves and the deer and Winona. Who acts: Ta, gray wolves, cold hungry winds. A
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 29

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In the gloam of the morning again on the trail of the red-deer she followed-- All day long through the thickets in vain, for the gray wolves were chasing the roebucks; And the cold, hungry winds from the plain chased the wolves and the deer and Winona.

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**Who acts:** Ta, gray wolves, cold hungry winds · **What happens:** follow, chase · **To what, where:** red deer, roebucks, wolves

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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, gray wolves, cold hungry winds), 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:pg8122:14:29
# text = In the gloam of the morning again on the trail of the red-deer she followed-- All day long through the thickets in vain, for the gray wolves were chasing the roebucks; And the cold, hungry winds from the plain chased the wolves and the deer and Winona.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gloam	gloam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roebucks	roebuck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
37	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Ta | the red deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | past · progressive | the gray wolves | the roebucks |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roebuck=Theme |
| 3 | **chase** | past | the cold hungry winds from the plain | the wolves and the deer and Winona |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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