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title: To the north--to the forests of fir and pine-- Led their stealthy st… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To the north--to the forests of fir and pine-- Led their stealthy steps on the winding trail, Till they saw the Lake of the Spirit [55] shine Through somber pines of the dusky dale. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 90

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To the north--to the forests of fir and pine-- Led their stealthy steps on the winding trail, Till they saw the Lake of the Spirit \[55\] shine Through somber pines of the dusky dale.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** lead, see, step · **To what, where:** stealthy steps, winding trail, Lake, somber pines

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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 (warriors), 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:pg8122:8:90
# text = To the north--to the forests of fir and pine-- Led their stealthy steps on the winding trail, Till they saw the Lake of the Spirit [55] shine Through somber pines of the dusky dale.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
34	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	somber	somber	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past |  | warriors's stealthy steps |  | the winding trail |  | to the north and the forests of fir and pine | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme to north=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the Lake of the Spirit |  | somber pines of the dusky dale |  | 55 shine *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **step** |  | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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