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title: In amber sky the swallows fly, and sail and circle o'er the deep; Th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In amber sky the swallows fly, and sail and circle o'er the deep; The light-winged night-hawks whir and cry; the silver pike and salmon leap. Who acts: swallows, winged night hawks. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its depend
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 84

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In amber sky the swallows fly, and sail and circle o'er the deep; The light-winged night-hawks whir and cry; the silver pike and salmon leap.

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**Who acts:** swallows, winged night hawks · **What happens:** fly, wing, whir, cry · **To what, where:** sail, amber sky

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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 (swallows, winged night hawks), 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:pg8122:19:84
# text = In amber sky the swallows fly, and sail and circle o'er the deep; The light-winged night-hawks whir and cry; the silver pike and salmon leap.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	whir	whir	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the swallows | sail o'er the deep and circle |  | amber sky |  | the silver pike and salmon leap *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
| 2 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | light *compound* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **whir** | present | the winged night hawks |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the winged night hawks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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