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title: Still forever and forever rolls the restless river on, Slumbering of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Still forever and forever rolls the restless river on, Slumbering oft but ceasing never, while the circling centuries run. Who acts: circling centuries. 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 16

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Still forever and forever rolls the restless river on, Slumbering oft but ceasing never, while the circling centuries run.

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**Who acts:** circling centuries · **What happens:** roll on, slumber, not cease, run · **To what, where:** restless river

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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 (circling centuries), 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:pg8122:4:16
# text = Still forever and forever rolls the restless river on, Slumbering oft but ceasing never, while the circling centuries run.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
5	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Slumbering	slumber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ceasing	cease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	circling	circling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll on** | present |  | the restless river |  |  | still | forever *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Agent |
| 2 | **slumber** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | oft *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | present | the circling centuries |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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