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title: By grassy mere the elk and deer gazed on the hunter as he came; Nor… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: By grassy mere the elk and deer gazed on the hunter as he came; Nor fled with fear from bow or spear;--"so wild were they that they were tame." Who acts: elk, child, Nor. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 94

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By grassy mere the elk and deer gazed on the hunter as he came; Nor fled with fear from bow or spear;--"so wild were they that they were tame."

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**Who acts:** elk, child, Nor · **What happens:** gaze, come, flee, be · **To what, where:** hunter, bow

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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 (elk, child, Nor), 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:pg8122:19:94
# text = By grassy mere the elk and deer gazed on the hunter as he came; Nor fled with fear from bow or spear;--"so wild were they that they were tame."
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | the elk and deer |  |  | the hunter |  | by grassy mere | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by mere=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flee** | past | Nor |  |  | bow or spear |  | with fear | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bow=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | bow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | elk |  |  |  |  | tame *property* | tree rules |

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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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