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title: Like the down of Magá [a] fell the snows, tossed and whirled into he… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the down of Magá [a] fell the snows, tossed and whirled into heaps by the North-wind. Who acts: Magá. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 7

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Like the down of Magá \[a\] fell the snows, tossed and whirled into heaps by the North-wind.

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**Who acts:** Magá · **What happens:** fall, toss, whirl · **To what, where:** snows, heaps

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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 (Magá), 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:pg8122:14:7
# text = Like the down of Magá [a] fell the snows, tossed and whirled into heaps by the North-wind.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Magá	Magá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tossed	toss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fall** | past | Magá *not said here* | the snows |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result |
| 2 | **toss** | participle |  | the snows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **whirl** | participle |  |  |  | heaps |  | by the North wind | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heap=Source by wind=Trajectory |

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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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