--- title: My dreams are like feathers that float on the breeze, And none can t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: My dreams are like feathers that float on the breeze, And none can tell what the omens are-- Save the beautiful dream of my love afar In the happy land of the tall Hóhé [15]-- My beautiful hunter--my brave Chaskè." Who acts: dreams, feathers, none, omens. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/) / 73 # Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 73 My dreams are like feathers that float on the breeze, And none can tell what the omens are-- Save the beautiful dream of my love afar In the happy land of the tall Hóhé \[15\]-- My beautiful hunter--my brave Chaskè." **Who acts:** dreams, feathers, none, omens, My · **What happens:** be, float, tell, dream · **To what, where:** breeze, brave Chaskè, feathers, love afar · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dreams, feathers, none, omens), 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:pg8122:7:73 # text = My dreams are like feathers that float on the breeze, And none can tell what the omens are-- Save the beautiful dream of my love afar In the happy land of the tall Hóhé [15]-- My beautiful hunter--my brave Chaskè." 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 ccomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 omens omen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 Save save ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 afar afar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 In in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Hóhé Hóhé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Chaskè Chaskè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | My dreams | | | | | like feathers | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | present | feathers | | | the breeze | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | none | my brave Chaskè | | | | save the beautiful dream of my love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful hunter | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the omens | feathers | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dream** | | My | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **dream** | | | my love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful hunter | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/74/) - ↑ back to [Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/)