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title: Then up from his seat in the silent crowd Rose the frowning, fierce-… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then up from his seat in the silent crowd Rose the frowning, fierce-eyed, tall Red Cloud; Swift was his stride as the panther's spring, When he leaps on the fawn from his cavern lair; Wiwâstè he caught by her flowing hair, And dragged her forth from the Sacred Ring. Who acts: Swift, song, Wiwâstè. A
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 19

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Then up from his seat in the silent crowd Rose the frowning, fierce-eyed, tall Red Cloud; Swift was his stride as the panther's spring, When he leaps on the fawn from his cavern lair; Wiwâstè he caught by her flowing hair, And dragged her forth from the Sacred Ring.

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**Who acts:** Swift, song, Wiwâstè · **What happens:** rise, be, leap, catch, flow, drag · **To what, where:** frowning, seat, stride, fawn, Wiwâstè, Sacred Ring

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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 (Swift, song, Wiwâstè), 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:pg8122:8:19
# text = Then up from his seat in the silent crowd Rose the frowning, fierce-eyed, tall Red Cloud; Swift was his stride as the panther's spring, When he leaps on the fawn from his cavern lair; Wiwâstè he caught by her flowing hair, And dragged her forth from the Sacred Ring.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	Rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	frowning	frowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	Swift	Swift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	amod	_	_
49	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  | the frowning |  | song's seat in the silent crowd | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient frowning=Extent from seat=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Swift | song's stride |  |  | spring | song *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leap** | present | song |  |  | the fawn from song's cavern lair |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fawn=Trajectory |
| 4 | **catch** | past | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | by Wiwâstè's flowing hair; song *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drag** | past | Wiwâstè *not said here* | Wiwâstè |  | the Sacred Ring |  | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from ring=Initial\_Location |

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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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