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title: The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry, Like a fog at morn on the fir-clad hill, When the meadows are damp and the winds are still. Who acts: white cloud, meadows, winds. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's D
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 8

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The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry, Like a fog at morn on the fir-clad hill, When the meadows are damp and the winds are still.

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**Who acts:** white cloud, meadows, winds · **What happens:** drift, be · **To what, where:** Council lodge

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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 (white cloud, meadows, winds), 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:pg8122:7:8
# text = The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry, Like a fog at morn on the fir-clad hill, When the meadows are damp and the winds are still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drifts	drift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	From	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	welkin	welkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	starry	starry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	clad	clad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | present | the white cloud |  |  | the Council lodge to the welkin |  | a fog at morn on the clad hill *parataxis*; starry *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lodge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | the meadows |  |  |  |  | damp *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the winds |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |

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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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