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title: They crouch, they leap, and their burning eyes Flash fierce in the l… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They crouch, they leap, and their burning eyes Flash fierce in the light of the flaming fire, As fiercer and fiercer and higher and higher The rude, wild notes of their chant arise. Who acts: pot, burning eyes, wild notes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wac
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 11

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They crouch, they leap, and their burning eyes Flash fierce in the light of the flaming fire, As fiercer and fiercer and higher and higher The rude, wild notes of their chant arise.

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**Who acts:** pot, burning eyes, wild notes · **What happens:** crouch, leap, flash, arise, light, note · **To what, where:** light, flaming fire, chant

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, burning eyes, wild notes), 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:pg8122:7:11
# text = They crouch, they leap, and their burning eyes Flash fierce in the light of the flaming fire, As fiercer and fiercer and higher and higher The rude, wild notes of their chant arise.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crouch	crouch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Flash	flash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	As	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | present | pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leap** | present | pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flash** | present | pot's burning eyes |  |  | the light of the flaming fire |  | fierce *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 4 | **arise** | present | wild notes of pot's chant |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | the flaming fire |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **note** |  |  | pot's chant |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **chant** |  | pot |  |  |  |  |  | nom chant «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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