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title: Then the blinding storms roared on the plains, like the simoons on s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the blinding storms roared on the plains, like the simoons on sandy Sahara; From the fangs of the fierce hurricanes fled the elk and the deer and the bison. Who acts: blinding storms. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 8

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Then the blinding storms roared on the plains, like the simoons on sandy Sahara; From the fangs of the fierce hurricanes fled the elk and the deer and the bison.

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**Who acts:** blinding storms · **What happens:** roar, flee · **To what, where:** blinding storms, plains, elk

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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 (blinding storms), 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:pg8122:14:8
# text = Then the blinding storms roared on the plains, like the simoons on sandy Sahara; From the fangs of the fierce hurricanes fled the elk and the deer and the bison.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	blinding	blinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
5	roared	roar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	simoons	simoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	From	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | participle |  | the blinding storms *not said here* |  | the plains and the simoons on sandy Sahara |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the blinding storms | the elk and the deer and the bison |  |  | then | the fangs of the fierce hurricanes *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elk=Initial\_Location |

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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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