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title: The round moon laughed, but a lone red star, [30] As she turned to t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The round moon laughed, but a lone red star, [30] As she turned to the teepee and entered in, Fell flashing and swift in the sky afar, Like the polished point of a javelin. Who acts: round moon, moon. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 66

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The round moon laughed, but a lone red star, \[30\] As she turned to the teepee and entered in, Fell flashing and swift in the sky afar, Like the polished point of a javelin.

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**Who acts:** round moon, moon · **What happens:** laugh, turn, enter, polish, point · **To what, where:** teepee, Fell flashing, sky afar, javelin

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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 (round moon, moon), 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:pg8122:7:66
# text = The round moon laughed, but a lone red star, [30] As she turned to the teepee and entered in, Fell flashing and swift in the sky afar, Like the polished point of a javelin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Fell	fell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flashing	flashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the round moon |  |  |  |  | a lone red star *ccomp* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | past | moon |  |  | the teepee |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to teepee=Trajectory |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the round moon *not said here* | Fell flashing and swift |  | the sky afar |  | the polished point of a javelin *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | a javelin |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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