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title: Still like some huge monster winding downward through the prairie pl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Still like some huge monster winding downward through the prairie plains, Seeking rest but never finding, till the tropic gulf he gains. Who acts: you, huge monster, monster. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 3

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Still like some huge monster winding downward through the prairie plains, Seeking rest but never finding, till the tropic gulf he gains.

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**Who acts:** you, huge monster, monster · **What happens:** like, wind, seek, not find, gain · **To what, where:** huge monster, prairie plains, rest, tropic gulf

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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, huge monster, monster), 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:pg8122:4:3
# text = Still like some huge monster winding downward through the prairie plains, Seeking rest but never finding, till the tropic gulf he gains.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tropic	tropic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | imperative | you *not said here* | some huge monster |  |  | still |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot monster=Theme |
| 2 | **wind** | gerund | some huge monster *not said here* |  |  | the prairie plains |  | downward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through plain=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | some huge monster *not said here* | rest |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **find** | gerund | some huge monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the tropic gulf *ccomp* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gain** | present | monster | the tropic gulf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gulf=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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