--- title: Then again the snow-white Sea-Gull From afar where sky and waters Me… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Then again the snow-white Sea-Gull From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straight toward the rocky highland, Straight as flies the feathered arrow, Straight to Raven and the infant, With the silver chain around her, Flew and touched the earth a woman. Who acts: sky. 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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), 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:pg8122:19:48 # text = Then again the snow-white Sea-Gull From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straight toward the rocky highland, Straight as flies the feathered arrow, Straight to Raven and the infant, With the silver chain around her, Flew and touched the earth a woman. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 4 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Gull Gull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 From from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 afar afar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 13 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 Meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 misty misty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 haze haze NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 mingle mingle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 Straight straight ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 toward toward ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 highland highland NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Straight straight ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Raven Raven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 infant infant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 With with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 47 around around ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 Flew Flew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | sky and waters | | | Gull afar | | in misty haze; toward the rocky highland Flew | 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 | **fly** | present | sky and waters *not said here* | the feathered arrow and the silver chain around Raven | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme | | 4 | **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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/49/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)