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title: The crimsoned west glows like the breast of _Rhuddin_ [a] when he pi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The crimsoned west glows like the breast of _Rhuddin_ [a] when he pipes in May, As downward droops the sun to rest, and shadows gather on the bay. Who acts: crimsoned west, west, downward, shadows. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2,
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 82

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The crimsoned west glows like the breast of \_Rhuddin\_ \[a\] when he pipes in May, As downward droops the sun to rest, and shadows gather on the bay.

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**Who acts:** crimsoned west, west, downward, shadows · **What happens:** crimson, glow, pipe, droop, rest, gather · **To what, where:** sun, bay

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crimsoned west, west, downward, shadows), 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:pg8122:19:82
# text = The crimsoned west glows like the breast of _Rhuddin_ [a] when he pipes in May, As downward droops the sun to rest, and shadows gather on the bay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Rhuddin	Rhuddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	downward	downward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	droops	droop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crimson** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **glow** | present | the crimsoned west |  |  |  |  | like the breast of Rhuddin | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pipe** |  | west |  |  |  | may |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **droop** | present | downward | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | downward *not said here* | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gather** | present | shadows |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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