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title: Like a camp-fire in the forest Left by hunters and deserted; Only se… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a camp-fire in the forest Left by hunters and deserted; Only seems a bed of ashes, But the East-wind, Wâbun noódin, Scatters through the woods the ashes, Fans to flame the sleeping embers, And the wild-fire roars and rages, Roars and rages through the forest. Who acts: East wind. A sentence of 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 79

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Like a camp-fire in the forest Left by hunters and deserted; Only seems a bed of ashes, But the East-wind, Wâbun noódin, Scatters through the woods the ashes, Fans to flame the sleeping embers, And the wild-fire roars and rages, Roars and rages through the forest.

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**Who acts:** East wind · **What happens:** leave, desert, seem, scatter · **To what, where:** forest, bed, woods

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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 (East wind), 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:pg8122:18:79
# text = Like a camp-fire in the forest Left by hunters and deserted; Only seems a bed of ashes, But the East-wind, Wâbun noódin, Scatters through the woods the ashes, Fans to flame the sleeping embers, And the wild-fire roars and rages, Roars and rages through the forest.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	deserted	desert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Wâbun	Wâbun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	noódin	noódin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
31	Scatters	scatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	roars	roar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	rages	rage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	Roars	roar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	rages	rage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
57	through	through	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by hunters | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hunter=Location |
| 2 | **desert** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present |  | a bed of ashes |  | the forest |  | like a camp fire in the forest; fire roars and rages and Roars and rages *parataxis* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Attribute |
| 4 | **scatter** | present | the East wind and Wâbun noódin |  |  | the woods and the ashes and Fans |  | flame and the sleeping embers *advcl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wood=Destination |

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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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