--- title: Birds of a feather will flock together,-- 'Tis an adage old,--it is… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Birds of a feather will flock together,-- 'Tis an adage old,--it is nature's law, And sure as the pole will the needle draw, The fierce Red Cloud with the flaunting feather, Will follow the finger of Hârpstinà. Who acts: Birds, pole. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, pole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:7:143 # text = Birds of a feather will flock together,-- 'Tis an adage old,--it is nature's law, And sure as the pole will the needle draw, The fierce Red Cloud with the flaunting feather, Will follow the finger of Hârpstinà. 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 flock flock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Tis Tis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 adage adage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 draw draw NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 36 Cloud Cloud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 flaunting flaunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 amod _ _ 40 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Hârpstinà Hârpstinà PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flock together** | future | Birds of a feather | | | | | Tis *parataxis*; together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Birds of a feather *not said here* | nature's law | | | | nature *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **draw** | future | the pole | the fierce Red Cloud with the flaunting feather | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **flaunt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **follow** | future | Birds of a feather *not said here* | the finger of Hârpstinà | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/144/) - ↑ back to [Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/)