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title: The fox pups [60] creep from the mother's lair And leap in the light… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox pups [60] creep from the mother's lair And leap in the light of the rising moon; And loud on the luminous moonlit lake Shrill the bugle notes of the lover loon; And woods and waters and welkin break Into jubilant song,--it is joyful June. Who acts: fox, woods. A sentence of «Legends of the N
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 112

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The fox pups \[60\] creep from the mother's lair And leap in the light of the rising moon; And loud on the luminous moonlit lake Shrill the bugle notes of the lover loon; And woods and waters and welkin break Into jubilant song,--it is joyful June.

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**Who acts:** fox, woods · **What happens:** pup, rise, break, be, light, note · **To what, where:** 60 creep, jubilant song, joyful June, rising moon, lover loon

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, woods), 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:pg8122:8:112
# text = The fox pups [60] creep from the mother's lair And leap in the light of the rising moon; And loud on the luminous moonlit lake Shrill the bugle notes of the lover loon; And woods and waters and welkin break Into jubilant song,--it is joyful June.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pups	pup	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	creep	creep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	amod	_	_
21	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	Shrill	Shrill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	welkin	welkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	jubilant	jubilant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pup** | present | the fox | 60 creep from the mother's lair in the light of the rising moon and leap |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | present | woods and waters and welkin |  |  |  |  | into jubilant song *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | present | fox | joyful June |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | the rising moon |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **note** |  |  | the lover loon |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication 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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