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title: Flock wise following chosen leaders, Like the shaftless heads of arr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Flock wise following chosen leaders, Like the shaftless heads of arrows Southward cleaving through the ether, Soon the wild geese followed after. Who acts: you, Southward. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 46

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Flock wise following chosen leaders, Like the shaftless heads of arrows Southward cleaving through the ether, Soon the wild geese followed after.

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**Who acts:** you, Southward · **What happens:** flock, follow, choose, cleave · **To what, where:** ether, wild geese

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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 (you, Southward), 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:pg8122:18:46
# text = Flock wise following chosen leaders, Like the shaftless heads of arrows Southward cleaving through the ether, Soon the wild geese followed after.
1	Flock	flock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	shaftless	shaftless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	Southward	Southward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	after	after	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | follow chosen leaders; the shaftless heads of arrows  Southward *parataxis*; wise *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cleave** | gerund | Southward *not said here* |  |  | the ether |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **follow** | participle |  | the wild geese *not said here* |  |  |  | after *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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