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title: Forth into the tangled forest, Threading through the thorny thickets… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Forth into the tangled forest, Threading through the thorny thickets, Treading, trails on marsh and meadow, Sullen strode the moody hunter. Who acts: tangled forest, Sullen. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 35

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Forth into the tangled forest, Threading through the thorny thickets, Treading, trails on marsh and meadow, Sullen strode the moody hunter.

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**Who acts:** tangled forest, Sullen · **What happens:** tangle, thread, tread, stride · **To what, where:** thorny thickets, trails, marsh, moody hunter, tangled forest

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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 (tangled forest, Sullen), 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:pg8122:18:35
# text = Forth into the tangled forest, Threading through the thorny thickets, Treading, trails on marsh and meadow, Sullen strode the moody hunter.
1	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Threading	thread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	Sullen	Sullen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	moody	moody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thread** | gerund | the tangled forest *not said here* |  |  | the thorny thickets |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tread** | gerund | the tangled forest *not said here* | trails |  | marsh and meadow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trail=Theme |
| 4 | **stride** | past | Sullen | the moody hunter |  | the tangled forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunter=Trajectory |

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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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