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title: For leagues away o'er the prairies green, On the billowy vast, may a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For leagues away o'er the prairies green, On the billowy vast, may a man be seen, When the sun is high and the stars are low; And the sable breast of the strutting crow Looms up like the form of the buffalo. Who acts: sun, stars, sable breast. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lenn
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 22

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For leagues away o'er the prairies green, On the billowy vast, may a man be seen, When the sun is high and the stars are low; And the sable breast of the strutting crow Looms up like the form of the buffalo.

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**Who acts:** sun, stars, sable breast · **What happens:** see, be, loom up, form · **To what, where:** man, buffalo

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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 (sun, stars, sable breast), 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:pg8122:9:22
# text = For leagues away o'er the prairies green, On the billowy vast, may a man be seen, When the sun is high and the stars are low; And the sable breast of the strutting crow Looms up like the form of the buffalo.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	On	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	billowy	billowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	sable	sable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	strutting	strutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	Looms	loom	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | for leagues o'er the prairies and the billowy vast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the stars |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **loom up** | present | the sable breast of the strutting crow |  |  |  |  | like the form of the buffalo | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the buffalo |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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