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title: [33] the hunters cried, With a joyous shout at the break of dawn; An… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [33] the hunters cried, With a joyous shout at the break of dawn; And darkly lined on the white hill-side, A herd of bison went marching on Through the drifted snow like a caravan. Who acts: hunters, herd. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Gi
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 76

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\[33\] the hunters cried, With a joyous shout at the break of dawn; And darkly lined on the white hill-side, A herd of bison went marching on Through the drifted snow like a caravan.

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**Who acts:** hunters, herd · **What happens:** cry, line, go, march on, drift, break · **To what, where:** 33, white hill side, drifted snow, dawn

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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 (hunters, herd), 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:pg8122:7:76
# text = [33] the hunters cried, With a joyous shout at the break of dawn; And darkly lined on the white hill-side, A herd of bison went marching on Through the drifted snow like a caravan.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	darkly	darkly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
20	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the hunters | 33 |  |  |  | with a joyous shout at the break of dawn | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with shout=Theme |
| 2 | **line** | participle | the hunters *not said here* |  |  | the white hill side |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | a herd of bison |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **march on** | gerund | a herd of bison *not said here* |  |  | the drifted snow |  | like a caravan | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory |
| 5 | **drift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **break** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom break «event 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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