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title: I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Su… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea. Who acts: I, afar bark. 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 3

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I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea.

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**Who acts:** I, afar bark · **What happens:** hark, sail · **To what, where:** vain, Sunrise sea

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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 (I, afar bark), 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:pg8122:15:3
# text = I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	harked	hark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hark** | past | I |  |  | vain |  | for face's footsteps | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | past | face's afar bark |  |  | the Sunrise sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=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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