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title: Then a flap of wings, like a thunder-bird, [32] And a wailing spirit… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a flap of wings, like a thunder-bird, [32] And a wailing spirit the sleeper heard; And lo, through the mists of the moon, she saw The hateful visage of Hârpstinà. Who acts: sleeper, flap. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.,
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 71

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Then a flap of wings, like a thunder-bird, \[32\] And a wailing spirit the sleeper heard; And lo, through the mists of the moon, she saw The hateful visage of Hârpstinà.

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**Who acts:** sleeper, flap · **What happens:** hear, see, mist · **To what, where:** wailing spirit, hateful visage, moon

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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 (sleeper, flap), 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:pg8122:7:71
# text = Then a flap of wings, like a thunder-bird, [32] And a wailing spirit the sleeper heard; And lo, through the mists of the moon, she saw The hateful visage of Hârpstinà.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flap	flap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	visage	visage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the sleeper | a wailing spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | a flap of wings and a thunder bird and a wailing spirit | the hateful visage of Hârpstinà |  |  |  | sleeper *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visage=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mist** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom mist «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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