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title: Slumber wraps the silent city, and the droning mills are dumb; One l… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Slumber wraps the silent city, and the droning mills are dumb; One lone whippowil's shrill ditty calls her mate that ne'er will come. Who acts: Slumber, droning mills, shrill ditty, ne'er. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependenc
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 8

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Slumber wraps the silent city, and the droning mills are dumb; One lone whippowil's shrill ditty calls her mate that ne'er will come.

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**Who acts:** Slumber, droning mills, shrill ditty, ne'er · **What happens:** wrap, drone, be, call, come · **To what, where:** silent city, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slumber, droning mills, shrill ditty, ne'er), 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:pg8122:16:8
# text = Slumber wraps the silent city, and the droning mills are dumb; One lone whippowil's shrill ditty calls her mate that ne'er will come.
1	Slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	droning	drone	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ditty	ditty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	ne'er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | present | Slumber | the silent city |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **drone** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the droning mills |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present | One lone whippowil's shrill ditty | ditty's mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | future | ne'er |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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