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title: But waking she murmured--"And what are these-- The flap of wings and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But waking she murmured--"And what are these-- The flap of wings and the falling star, The wailing spirit that's never at ease, The little man crouching under the trees, And the hateful visage of Hârpstinà? Who acts: that, little man. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 72

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But waking she murmured--"And what are these-- The flap of wings and the falling star, The wailing spirit that's never at ease, The little man crouching under the trees, And the hateful visage of Hârpstinà?

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**Who acts:** that, little man · **What happens:** wake, murmur, be, fall, not be, crouch · **To what, where:** flap, these, ease, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that, little man), 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:pg8122:7:72
# text = But waking she murmured--"And what are these-- The flap of wings and the falling star, The wailing spirit that's never at ease, The little man crouching under the trees, And the hateful visage of Hârpstinà?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flap	flap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	visage	visage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past |  | the flap of wings and the falling star and the wailing spirit |  |  |  | the hateful visage of Hârpstinà *obl*; sleeper *nsubj*; what *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  | ease |  | the little man *appos* | tree rules |
| 6 | **crouch** *in a quote* | gerund | the little man *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

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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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