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title: But still, methinks, on dusky brinks the spirit of the warrior moves… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But still, methinks, on dusky brinks the spirit of the warrior moves; At crystal springs the hunter drinks, and nightly haunts the spot he loves. Who acts: spirit, hunter, warrior. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 99

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But still, methinks, on dusky brinks the spirit of the warrior moves; At crystal springs the hunter drinks, and nightly haunts the spot he loves.

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**Who acts:** spirit, hunter, warrior · **What happens:** move, drink, haunt, love · **To what, where:** spot, methinks

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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 (spirit, hunter, warrior), 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:pg8122:19:99
# text = But still, methinks, on dusky brinks the spirit of the warrior moves; At crystal springs the hunter drinks, and nightly haunts the spot he loves.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brinks	brink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	At	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | the spirit of the warrior |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | present | the hunter |  |  |  | spring |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **haunt** | present | the hunter *not said here* | the spot |  |  |  | nightly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spot=Experiencer |
| 4 | **love** | present | warrior | the spot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |

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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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