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title: Their light canoes glided over our waters, and their hunters chased… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Their light canoes glided over our waters, and their hunters chased the deer and the buffalo on the sites of our cities. Who acts: light canoes, hunters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with i
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 28

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Their light canoes glided over our waters, and their hunters chased the deer and the buffalo on the sites of our cities.

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**Who acts:** light canoes, hunters · **What happens:** glide, chase · **To what, where:** waters, deer, sites

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light canoes, hunters), 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:pg8122:2:29
# text = Their light canoes glided over our waters, and their hunters chased the deer and the buffalo on the sites of our cities.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | rivers's light canoes |  |  | our waters |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **chase** | past | rivers's hunters | the deer and the buffalo |  | the sites of our cities |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme on site=Trajectory |

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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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