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title: Down-whirling and fluttering she fell, and headlong plunged into the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Down-whirling and fluttering she fell, and headlong plunged into the waters. Who acts: brant. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 14

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Down-whirling and fluttering she fell, and headlong plunged into the waters.

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**Who acts:** brant · **What happens:** whirl, flutter, fall, plunge · **To what, where:** waters

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brant), 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:pg8122:15:14
# text = Down-whirling and fluttering she fell, and headlong plunged into the waters.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | gerund | brant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund | brant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | brant |  |  |  |  | headlong *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plunge** | participle |  |  |  | the waters |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=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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