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title: From rock, and thicket, and brush, and brakes, Gleamed the burning e… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From rock, and thicket, and brush, and brakes, Gleamed the burning eyes of the forest snakes. Who acts: you, brakes. 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 93

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From rock, and thicket, and brush, and brakes, Gleamed the burning eyes of the forest snakes.

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**Who acts:** you, brakes · **What happens:** brush, gleam, burn · **To what, where:** brakes, rock, burning eyes

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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 (you, brakes), 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:pg8122:8:93
# text = From rock, and thicket, and brush, and brakes, Gleamed the burning eyes of the forest snakes.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | brakes |  | rock and thicket |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from rock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle | brakes *not said here* | the burning eyes of the forest snakes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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