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title: On icebound river and white robed prairie The diamonds gleamed in th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On icebound river and white robed prairie The diamonds gleamed in the flame of noon; But cold and keen were the breezes airy Wa-zi-ya [3] blew from his icy throne. Who acts: breezes, airy zi ya, noon. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 2

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On icebound river and white robed prairie The diamonds gleamed in the flame of noon; But cold and keen were the breezes airy Wa-zi-ya \[3\] blew from his icy throne.

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**Who acts:** breezes, airy zi ya, noon · **What happens:** robe, gleam, be, blow, flame · **To what, where:** diamonds, flame, airy zi ya, icebound river

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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 (breezes, airy zi ya, noon), 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:pg8122:6:2
# text = On icebound river and white robed prairie The diamonds gleamed in the flame of noon; But cold and keen were the breezes airy Wa-zi-ya [3] blew from his icy throne.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	icebound	icebound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	robed	robe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	zi	zi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	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 | **robe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle |  | the diamonds *not said here* |  | the flame of noon |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the breezes | airy zi ya |  | icebound river and white robed prairie and the diamonds |  | 3 *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** | past | airy zi ya |  |  |  |  | from ya's icy throne | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from throne=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **flame** |  | noon |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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