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title: The pale-faced stars fled one by one, And hid in the vast from the r… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The pale-faced stars fled one by one, And hid in the vast from the rising sun. From woods and waters and welkin soon Fled the hovering mists of the vanished moon. Who acts: faced stars. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 16

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The pale-faced stars fled one by one, And hid in the vast from the rising sun. From woods and waters and welkin soon Fled the hovering mists of the vanished moon.

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**Who acts:** faced stars · **What happens:** flee, hide, rise, vanish, mist · **To what, where:** one, vast, hovering mists, vanished moon

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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 (faced stars), 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:pg8122:9:16
# text = The pale-faced stars fled one by one, And hid in the vast from the rising sun. From woods and waters and welkin soon Fled the hovering mists of the vanished moon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	From	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	welkin	welkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	Fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	hovering	hovering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **flee** | past | the faced stars | one |  |  |  | by one | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | past | the faced stars *not said here* |  |  | the vast |  | from the rising sun. from woods and waters and welkin | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from sun.=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flee** | past | the faced stars *not said here* | the hovering mists of the vanished moon |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mist=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **vanish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **mist** |  |  | the vanished moon |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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