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title: Where his wayward waters thundered, roaring o'er the rocky walls, Du… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Where his wayward waters thundered, roaring o'er the rocky walls, Dusky hunters sat and wondered, listening to the spirits' calls. " Who acts: wayward waters, Dusky hunters, spirits. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 8

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Where his wayward waters thundered, roaring o'er the rocky walls, Dusky hunters sat and wondered, listening to the spirits' calls. "

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**Who acts:** wayward waters, Dusky hunters, spirits · **What happens:** thunder, roar, sit, wonder, listen, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wayward waters, Dusky hunters, spirits), 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:pg8122:4:8
# text = Where his wayward waters thundered, roaring o'er the rocky walls, Dusky hunters sat and wondered, listening to the spirits' calls. "
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wayward	wayward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	Dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thunder** | past | Moses's wayward waters |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roar** | gerund | Moses's wayward waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | o'er the rocky walls | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Dusky hunters |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Dusky hunters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **listen** | gerund | Dusky hunters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the spirits's calls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to call=Theme |
| 6 | **call** |  | the spirits |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication 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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