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title: The hunters fleet In vain pursue, and in vain they prowl, And lurk i… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunters fleet In vain pursue, and in vain they prowl, And lurk in the forest till dawn of day. Who acts: hunters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 35

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The hunters fleet In vain pursue, and in vain they prowl, And lurk in the forest till dawn of day.

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**Who acts:** hunters · **What happens:** fleet, prowl · **To what, where:** vain pursue, lurk, vain

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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 (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:pg8122:8:35
# text = The hunters fleet In vain pursue, and in vain they prowl, And lurk in the forest till dawn of day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fleet	fleet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pursue	pursue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prowl	prowl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lurk	lurk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fleet** | present | the hunters |  |  | vain pursue |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prowl** | present | hunters *= hunter* | lurk |  | vain |  | in the forest till dawn of day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lurk=Trajectory |

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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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