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title: From their dens came the coon and the bear; o'er the snow through th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From their dens came the coon and the bear; o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered; On her snow shoes with stout bow and spear on their trails ran the huntress Winona. Who acts: Islands, trails. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 76

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From their dens came the coon and the bear; o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered; On her snow shoes with stout bow and spear on their trails ran the huntress Winona.

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**Who acts:** Islands, trails · **What happens:** come, wander, run · **To what, where:** coon, dens, snow shoes, huntress

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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 (Islands, trails), 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:pg8122:14:76
# text = From their dens came the coon and the bear; o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered; On her snow shoes with stout bow and spear on their trails ran the huntress Winona.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dens	den	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	On	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	huntress	huntress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past |  | the coon and the bear |  | Islands's dens |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coon=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Islands *= island* |  |  | bear's snow shoes with stout bow and spear |  | o'er the snow through the woodlands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run** | past | Islands's trails | the huntress |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme huntress=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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