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title: Now, alas, the bow and quiver and the dusky braves have fled, And th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, alas, the bow and quiver and the dusky braves have fled, And the sullen, shackled river drives the droning mills instead. Who acts: sullen shackled river. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 11

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Now, alas, the bow and quiver and the dusky braves have fled, And the sullen, shackled river drives the droning mills instead.

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**Who acts:** sullen shackled river · **What happens:** flee, shackle, drive, drone · **To what, where:** alas, droning mills

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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: who acts (sullen shackled river), 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:pg8122:4:11
# text = Now, alas, the bow and quiver and the dusky braves have fled, And the sullen, shackled river drives the droning mills instead.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	shackled	shackle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	droning	drone	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present · perfect · passive |  | alas and the dusky braves |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shackle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | present | the sullen shackled river | the droning mills |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drone** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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