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title: When the whirling snows from the north descend, Shall wail and moan… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When the whirling snows from the north descend, Shall wail and moan in the midnight wind. Who acts: whirling. 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 84

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When the whirling snows from the north descend, Shall wail and moan in the midnight wind.

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**Who acts:** whirling · **What happens:** snow, descend, wail, moan · **To what, where:** north

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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 (whirling), 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:pg8122:8:84
# text = When the whirling snows from the north descend, Shall wail and moan in the midnight wind.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whirling	whirling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	snows	snow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	moan	moan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snow** | present | the whirling |  |  | the north |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **descend** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wail** | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **moan** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in the midnight wind | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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