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title: In the moon Magâ-o-Kâda, [71] twice an hundred years ago-- Ere the "… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the moon Magâ-o-Kâda, [71] twice an hundred years ago-- Ere the "Black Robe's" [a] sacred shadow stalked the prairies' pathless snow Down the swollen, rushing river, in the sunset's golden hues, From the hunt of bear and beaver came the band in swift canoes. Who acts: sacred shadow, Ere, prairies
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 26

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In the moon Magâ-o-Kâda, \[71\] twice an hundred years ago-- Ere the "Black Robe's" \[a\] sacred shadow stalked the prairies' pathless snow Down the swollen, rushing river, in the sunset's golden hues, From the hunt of bear and beaver came the band in swift canoes.

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**Who acts:** sacred shadow, Ere, prairies · **What happens:** stalk, rush, come, snow · **To what, where:** pathless snow, moon

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacred shadow, Ere, prairies), 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:pg8122:17:26
# text = In the moon Magâ-o-Kâda, [71] twice an hundred years ago-- Ere the "Black Robe's" [a] sacred shadow stalked the prairies' pathless snow Down the swollen, rushing river, in the sunset's golden hues, From the hunt of bear and beaver came the band in swift canoes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
4	Magâ	Magâ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Kâda	Kâda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	_
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stalked	stalk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	pathless	pathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
37	Down	down	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	amod	_	_
42	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	From	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
58	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stalk** | past | a sacred shadow | the prairies's pathless snow |  |  |  | down the swollen rushing river | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Ere |  |  | the moon |  | Black Robe *nmod:poss*; the sunset's golden hues *nsubj*; the band in swift canoes *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moon=Location |
| 4 | **snow** |  | the prairies |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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