--- title: From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straig… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straight toward the rocky highland, Straight as flies die feathered arrow, Straight to Raven and the infant Swiftly flew a snow white sea-gull.-- Flew and touched the earth a woman. Who acts: sky, flies, feathered arrow, snow. 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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 (sky, flies, feathered arrow, snow), 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:pg8122:19:28 # text = From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straight toward the rocky highland, Straight as flies die feathered arrow, Straight to Raven and the infant Swiftly flew a snow white sea-gull.-- Flew and touched the earth a woman. 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 afar afar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 4 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 Meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 misty misty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 haze haze NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mingle mingle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 Straight straight ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 toward toward ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 highland highland NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 Straight straight ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Raven Raven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 infant infant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 Swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 36 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 Flew Flew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | sky and waters | Flew | | afar | | in misty haze; toward the rocky highland | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mingle** | infinitive | sky and waters *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **die** | present | flies | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | past | feathered arrow | | | | | Raven and the infant *nsubj*; swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **gull** | | snow | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **touch** | past | sky and waters *not said here* | the earth | | | | a woman *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus earth=Experiencer woman=Result | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/29/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)