--- title: Then he spread his mighty pinions Over all the land and shook them,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Then he spread his mighty pinions Over all the land and shook them, Like the white down of Wâubésè [1017] Fell the feathery snow and covered, All the marshes and the meadows, All the hill-tops and the highlands. Who acts: Ka, white down. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, white down), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:18:75 # text = Then he spread his mighty pinions Over all the land and shook them, Like the white down of Wâubésè [1017] Fell the feathery snow and covered, All the marshes and the meadows, All the hill-tops and the highlands. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pinions pinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 Over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 Like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Wâubésè Wâubésè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 1017 1017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 Fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 marshes marsh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 highlands highland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past | Ka | Ka's mighty pinions | | all land | then | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pinion=Theme over land=Destination | | 2 | **shake** | past | Ka *not said here* | pinions *= pinion* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | the white down of Wâubésè | the feathery snow | | | | all marshes and the meadows and all hill tops and the highlands *obl* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result | | 4 | **cover** | participle | the white down of Wâubésè *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/76/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)