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title: O, what are leagues to the loving hunter, Or the blinding drift of t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: O, what are leagues to the loving hunter, Or the blinding drift of the hurricane, When it raves and roars o'er the frozen plain! Who acts: hurricane. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 137

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O, what are leagues to the loving hunter, Or the blinding drift of the hurricane, When it raves and roars o'er the frozen plain!

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**Who acts:** hurricane · **What happens:** be, rave, roar, freeze, drift · **To what, where:** leagues, hurricane

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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 (hurricane), 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:pg8122:7:137
# text = O, what are leagues to the loving hunter, Or the blinding drift of the hurricane, When it raves and roars o'er the frozen plain!
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blinding	blinding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	drift	drift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	raves	rave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | leagues or the blinding drift of the hurricane |  |  |  | to the loving hunter; what *nsubj*; the blinding drift of the hurricane *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rave** *speech: other* | present | hurricane |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roar** | present | hurricane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | o'er the frozen plain | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **drift** |  |  | the hurricane |  |  |  |  | nom drift «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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