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title: Homeward to the South the Summer Turned and fled the naked forests. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Homeward to the South the Summer Turned and fled the naked forests. Who acts: Homeward. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 44

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Homeward to the South the Summer Turned and fled the naked forests.

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**Who acts:** Homeward · **What happens:** turn, flee · **To what, where:** naked forests

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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 (Homeward), 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:pg8122:18:44
# text = Homeward to the South the Summer Turned and fled the naked forests.
1	Homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Homeward to the South |  |  |  |  | the Summer *nsubj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | past | Homeward to the South *not said here* | the naked forests |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Initial\_Location |

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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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