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title: [a] Many summers on the highland, in the full-moon's golden glow-- I… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] Many summers on the highland, in the full-moon's golden glow-- In the woods on Fairy Island, [b] walked a snow white fawn and doe Spirits of the babe and mother sadly seeking evermore, For a father's love another turned with evil charm and power. Who acts: Many summers, snow, mother, love. A sen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 48

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\[a\] Many summers on the highland, in the full-moon's golden glow-- In the woods on Fairy Island, \[b\] walked a snow white fawn and doe Spirits of the babe and mother sadly seeking evermore, For a father's love another turned with evil charm and power.

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**Who acts:** Many summers, snow, mother, love, full moon, father · **What happens:** walk, fawn, seek, turn, glow, love · **To what, where:** another

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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 (Many summers, snow, mother, love), 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:pg8122:17:48
# text = [a] Many summers on the highland, in the full-moon's golden glow-- In the woods on Fairy Island, [b] walked a snow white fawn and doe Spirits of the babe and mother sadly seeking evermore, For a father's love another turned with evil charm and power.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	highland	highland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	In	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
44	evermore	evermore	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	For	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | a Many summers on the highland and the full moon's golden glow and the woods on Fairy Island |  |  |  |  | b *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fawn** |  | snow |  |  |  |  | doe Spirits of the babe and mother *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a father's love; evermore, sadly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for love=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | participle · passive | a father's love *not said here* | another |  |  |  | with evil charm and power | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **glow** |  | the full moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **love** |  | a father |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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