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title: And long she lay in a reverie, And dreamed, wide-awake, of her brave… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And long she lay in a reverie, And dreamed, wide-awake, of her brave Chaskè, Till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow She heard, and the murmur of voices low;-- Then the hunters' greeting--Ihó! Who acts: Wiwâstè, feet, hunters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, He
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 89

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And long she lay in a reverie, And dreamed, wide-awake, of her brave Chaskè, Till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow She heard, and the murmur of voices low;-- Then the hunters' greeting--Ihó!

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, feet, hunters · **What happens:** lie, dream, hear, trample, murmur, greet · **To what, where:** greeting, reverie, crispy snow, voices

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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 (Wiwâstè, feet, hunters), 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:pg8122:7:89
# text = And long she lay in a reverie, And dreamed, wide-awake, of her brave Chaskè, Till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow She heard, and the murmur of voices low;-- Then the hunters' greeting--Ihó!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reverie	reverie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	crispy	crispy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Ihó	Ihó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Wiwâstè | the hunters's greeting |  | a reverie | till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow | of Wiwâstè's brave Chaskè; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reverie=Location |
| 2 | **dream** | past | Wiwâstè *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Wiwâstè | the crispy snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus |
| 4 | **trample** |  | feet |  |  | the crispy snow |  |  | nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=agent on=place |
| 5 | **murmur** |  |  | voices |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **greet** |  | the hunters |  |  |  |  |  | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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