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title: The Autumn blasts o'er Wakâwa's mound Shall chase the hair of the th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Autumn blasts o'er Wakâwa's mound Shall chase the hair of the thistle's head, And the bare armed oak o'er the silent dead. Who acts: Autumn, mound. 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
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 83

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The Autumn blasts o'er Wakâwa's mound Shall chase the hair of the thistle's head, And the bare armed oak o'er the silent dead.

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**Who acts:** Autumn, mound · **What happens:** blast, chase · **To what, where:** bare armed oak, hair

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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 (Autumn, mound), 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:pg8122:8:83
# text = The Autumn blasts o'er Wakâwa's mound Shall chase the hair of the thistle's head, And the bare armed oak o'er the silent dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blasts	blast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	o'er	o'er	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blast** | present | the Autumn | the bare armed oak o'er the silent dead |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **chase** | shall | Wakâwa's mound | the hair of the thistle's head |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

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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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