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title: Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluf… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound. Who acts: limits. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 16

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Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound.

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**Who acts:** limits · **What happens:** be, shout, roll, break, bluff · **To what, where:** beetling, hills profound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. \[2\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limits), 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:pg8122:6:16
# text = Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound.
1	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	4	flat	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	On	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beetling	beetling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	bluffs	bluff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	profound	profound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	echoing	echoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	jubilant	jubilant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | Wild *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **roll** | past | limits *= limit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past | limits *= limit* *not said here* |  |  | the beetling |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beetling=Location |
| 5 | **bluff** | present |  | the hills profound and a echoing and jubilant sea of sound |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profound=Patient |

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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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