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title: Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees [a] rose; Th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees [a] rose; The hunter plied the silent oar; the forest lay in still repose. Who acts: hunter, forest, Indian teepees. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 90

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Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees \[a\] rose; The hunter plied the silent oar; the forest lay in still repose.

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**Who acts:** hunter, forest, Indian teepees · **What happens:** ply, lie, repose, smoke · **To what, where:** silent oar, smoke

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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 (hunter, forest, Indian teepees), 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:pg8122:19:90
# text = Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees [a] rose; The hunter plied the silent oar; the forest lay in still repose.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	yore	yore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
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	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	plied	ply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ply** | past | the hunter | the silent oar |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the forest | the smoke of Indian teepees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repose** | infinitive | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smoke** |  | Indian teepees |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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