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title: And the guide of her steps was a star --the cold-glinting star of Wa… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And the guide of her steps was a star --the cold-glinting star of Wazíya--[a] Over meadow and hilltop afar, on the way to the lodge of her father. Who acts: guide, Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 61

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And the guide of her steps was a star --the cold-glinting star of Wazíya--\[a\] Over meadow and hilltop afar, on the way to the lodge of her father.

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**Who acts:** guide, Winona · **What happens:** be, glint, hilltop, step · **To what, where:** star, way

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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 (guide, Winona), 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:pg8122:14:61
# text = And the guide of her steps was a star --the cold-glinting star of Wazíya--[a] Over meadow and hilltop afar, on the way to the lodge of her father.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	glinting	glint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Wazíya	Wazíya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hilltop	hilltop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | past | the guide of Winona's steps | a star |  |  |  | the cold glinting star of Wazíya over a meadow *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glint** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hilltop** | present | the guide of Winona's steps *not said here* |  |  | the way to the lodge of Winona's father |  | afar *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** |  | Winona |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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