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title: See--he stands erect and lingers--stoic still, but loth to go-- Clut… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: See--he stands erect and lingers--stoic still, but loth to go-- Clutching in his tawny fingers feathered shaft and polished bow. Who acts: you, moonlight. 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 19

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See--he stands erect and lingers--stoic still, but loth to go-- Clutching in his tawny fingers feathered shaft and polished bow.

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**Who acts:** you, moonlight · **What happens:** see, stand, linger, go, clutch, polish · **To what, where:** tawny fingers

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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 (you, moonlight), 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:pg8122:4:19
# text = See--he stands erect and lingers--stoic still, but loth to go-- Clutching in his tawny fingers feathered shaft and polished bow.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lingers	linger	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stoic	stoic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Clutching	clutch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stand** | present | moonlight |  |  |  |  | erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **linger** | present | moonlight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stoic *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **clutch** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | moonlight's tawny fingers and feathered shaft and polished bow |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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