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title: Hunters hurry in the gloaming, all in vain Wanâta calls; Singing thr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hunters hurry in the gloaming, all in vain Wanâta calls; Singing through the surges foaming, lo she plunges o'er the Falls. Who acts: Hunters, hunter. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 45

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Hunters hurry in the gloaming, all in vain Wanâta calls; Singing through the surges foaming, lo she plunges o'er the Falls.

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**Who acts:** Hunters, hunter · **What happens:** hurry, sing, foam, plunge · **To what, where:** gloaming, surges

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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 (Hunters, hunter), 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:pg8122:17:45
# text = Hunters hurry in the gloaming, all in vain Wanâta calls; Singing through the surges foaming, lo she plunges o'er the Falls.
1	Hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurry	hurry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gloaming	gloaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	surges	surge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	plunges	plunge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | present | Hunters |  |  | the gloaming |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gloaming=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Hunters *not said here* |  |  | the surges |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through surge=Location |
| 3 | **foam** | gerund | Hunters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plunge** | present | hunter |  |  |  |  | o'er the Falls | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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