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title: Upward then he climbed the ether-- On the Bridge of Stars [1022] he… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Upward then he climbed the ether-- On the Bridge of Stars [1022] he traveled, Westward traveled on his journey To the far-off Sunset Mountains-- To the gloomy land of shadows. Who acts: Westward. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, w
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 100

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Upward then he climbed the ether-- On the Bridge of Stars \[1022\] he traveled, Westward traveled on his journey To the far-off Sunset Mountains-- To the gloomy land of shadows.

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**Who acts:** Westward · **What happens:** climb, travel, journey · **To what, where:** ether, Bridge, journey

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Westward), 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:pg8122:18:100
# text = Upward then he climbed the ether-- On the Bridge of Stars [1022] he traveled, Westward traveled on his journey To the far-off Sunset Mountains-- To the gloomy land of shadows.
1	Upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	On	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1022	1022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Westward	Westward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	To	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	Sunset	Sunset	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	To	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Westward | the ether |  | the Bridge of Stars | then | 1022 *obl*; upward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ether=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Westward |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | past | Westward |  |  | Westward's journey |  | to the far off  Sunset Mountains; to the gloomy land of shadows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to off=Destination |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Westward |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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