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title: Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea, Dark and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea, Dark and deep and grand, forever wrapt in myth and mystery. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 1

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Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea, Dark and deep and grand, forever wrapt in myth and mystery.

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**What happens:** roll, sweep, wrapt · **To what, where:** Royal River, sea, myth

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:4:1
# text = Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea, Dark and deep and grand, forever wrapt in myth and mystery.
1	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present |  | the Royal River |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Agent |
| 2 | **sweep** | gerund |  |  |  | the sea |  | proudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
| 3 | **wrapt** | present |  |  |  | myth and mystery |  | forever *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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