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title: She leaped the brook and she swam the river; Her course through the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: She leaped the brook and she swam the river; Her course through the forest Wiwâstè wist By the star that gleamed through the glimmering mist That fell from the dim moon's downy quiver. Who acts: long, Wiwâstè, star, glimmering mist. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 10

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She leaped the brook and she swam the river; Her course through the forest Wiwâstè wist By the star that gleamed through the glimmering mist That fell from the dim moon's downy quiver.

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**Who acts:** long, Wiwâstè, star, glimmering mist, dim moon · **What happens:** leap, swim, wist, gleam, fall, quiver · **To what, where:** brook, forest, river, glimmering mist, downy quiver

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long, Wiwâstè, star, glimmering mist), 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:pg8122:9:10
# text = She leaped the brook and she swam the river; Her course through the forest Wiwâstè wist By the star that gleamed through the glimmering mist That fell from the dim moon's downy quiver.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wist	wist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	By	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | long | the brook |  | the forest |  | long's course *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | past | long | the river |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wist** | present | Wiwâstè | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by the star | tree rules |
| 4 | **gleam** | past | the star |  |  | the glimmering mist |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mist=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | the glimmering mist | the glimmering mist *not said here* |  | the dim moon's downy quiver |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mist=Extent from quiver=Initial\_State |
| 6 | **quiver** |  | the dim moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: 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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