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title: Fields of corn and feet of cities lo the mighty river laves, Where t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Fields of corn and feet of cities lo the mighty river laves, Where the Saxon sings his ditties o'er the swarthy warriors' graves. Who acts: Fields, mighty river, Saxon. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 6

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Fields of corn and feet of cities lo the mighty river laves, Where the Saxon sings his ditties o'er the swarthy warriors' graves.

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**Who acts:** Fields, mighty river, Saxon · **What happens:** lo, lave, sing · **To what, where:** ditties

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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 (Fields, mighty river, Saxon), 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:pg8122:4:6
# text = Fields of corn and feet of cities lo the mighty river laves, Where the Saxon sings his ditties o'er the swarthy warriors' graves.
1	Fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	lo	lo	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laves	lave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ditties	ditty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lo** | present | Fields of corn and feet of cities |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lave** | present | the mighty river |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the Saxon | Saxon's ditties |  |  |  | o'er the swarthy warriors's graves | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditty=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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