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title: Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of win… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of winter are keen and cold. Who acts: winds. 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 27

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Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of winter are keen and cold.

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**Who acts:** winds · **What happens:** be, wind · **To what, where:** somber pines, winter

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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 (winds), 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:pg8122:6:27
# text = Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of winter are keen and cold.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	somber	somber	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nor'land	nor'land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wold	wold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the winds of winter |  |  |  |  | keen *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the winds of winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wind** |  |  | winter |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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