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title: And nearer,--still nearer! --the blood of the doe have they scented… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And nearer,--still nearer! --the blood of the doe have they scented and follow; Through the thicket, the meadow, the wood, dash the pack on the trail of Winona. Who acts: blood, wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 63

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And nearer,--still nearer! --the blood of the doe have they scented and follow; Through the thicket, the meadow, the wood, dash the pack on the trail of Winona.

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**Who acts:** blood, wolves · **What happens:** have, scent, follow, dash · **To what, where:** pack

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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 (blood, wolves), 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:pg8122:14:63
# text = And nearer,--still nearer! --the blood of the doe have they scented and follow; Through the thicket, the meadow, the wood, dash the pack on the trail of Winona.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | the blood of the doe |  |  |  |  | the thicket and the meadow and the wood *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scent** | participle | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dash** | infinitive | the blood of the doe *not said here* | the pack |  |  |  | on the trail of Winona | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pack=Instrument on trail=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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