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title: Then again the elk and bison on thy grassy banks shall feed, And alo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then again the elk and bison on thy grassy banks shall feed, And along the low horizon shall the pluméd hunter speed; Then again on lake and river shall the silent birch canoe Bear the brave with bow and quiver on his way to war or woo: Then the beaver on the meadow shall rebuild his broken wall, An
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 24

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Then again the elk and bison on thy grassy banks shall feed, And along the low horizon shall the pluméd hunter speed; Then again on lake and river shall the silent birch canoe Bear the brave with bow and quiver on his way to war or woo: Then the beaver on the meadow shall rebuild his broken wall, And the wolf shall chase his shadow and his mate the panther call.

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**Who acts:** elk, lake, beaver, wolf · **What happens:** feed, bear, woo, rebuild, break, chase · **To what, where:** brave, way, broken wall, shadow

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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 (elk, lake, beaver, wolf), 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:pg8122:4:24
# text = Then again the elk and bison on thy grassy banks shall feed, And along the low horizon shall the pluméd hunter speed; Then again on lake and river shall the silent birch canoe Bear the brave with bow and quiver on his way to war or woo: Then the beaver on the meadow shall rebuild his broken wall, And the wolf shall chase his shadow and his mate the panther call.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	pluméd	pluméd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
25	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	Bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
51	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
63	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
66	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	_
68	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
71	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	conj	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
74	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	compound	_	_
75	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | shall | the elk and bison on thy grassy banks |  |  |  | again; then | the pluméd hunter speed along the low horizon *conj* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | shall | lake and river | the brave |  | River's way to war |  | with bow and quiver; the silent birch canoe *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Patient |
| 3 | **woo** | infinitive | lake and river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rebuild** | shall | the beaver on the meadow | beaver's broken wall |  |  | then |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Result |
| 5 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **chase** | shall | the wolf | beaver's shadow and beaver's mate |  |  |  | the panther call *obj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **shadow** |  | beaver |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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