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title: [57] From brake, and thicket, and brush, and stone, The bow string h… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [57] From brake, and thicket, and brush, and stone, The bow string hummed and the arrow hissed, And the lance of a crouching Ojibway shone, Or the scalp-knife gleamed in a swarthy fist. Who acts: thicket, stone, arrow, Ojibway. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The F
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 94

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\[57\] From brake, and thicket, and brush, and stone, The bow string hummed and the arrow hissed, And the lance of a crouching Ojibway shone, Or the scalp-knife gleamed in a swarthy fist.

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**Who acts:** thicket, stone, arrow, Ojibway · **What happens:** brush, hum, hiss, crouch, shine, gleam · **To what, where:** scalp knife, swarthy fist, 57

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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 (thicket, stone, arrow, Ojibway), 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:pg8122:8:94
# text = [57] From brake, and thicket, and brush, and stone, The bow string hummed and the arrow hissed, And the lance of a crouching Ojibway shone, Or the scalp-knife gleamed in a swarthy fist.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	hummed	hum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	nmod	_	_
30	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | infinitive | thicket |  |  |  |  | the lance of a *parataxis* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hum** | past | stone and the bow string |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **hiss** | past | the arrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **crouch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shine** | past | Ojibway | the scalp knife |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 6 | **gleam** | participle |  | the scalp knife *not said here* |  | a swarthy fist |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fist=Location |

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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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