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title: And robed in her mantle of mist the sprite Her low wail poured on th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And robed in her mantle of mist the sprite Her low wail poured on the silent night. Who acts: foaming. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 54

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And robed in her mantle of mist the sprite Her low wail poured on the silent night.

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**Who acts:** foaming · **What happens:** robe, pour, wail · **To what, where:** sprite, mantle, low wail

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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 (foaming), 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:pg8122:7:54
# text = And robed in her mantle of mist the sprite Her low wail poured on the silent night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	robed	robe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **robe** | past |  | the sprite |  | foaming's mantle of mist |  | foaming's low wail *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | participle |  | foaming's low wail *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **wail** |  | foaming |  |  |  |  |  | nom wail «communication intransitive»: 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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