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title: The Bloody River [40] she reached at last, And boldly walked in the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bloody River [40] she reached at last, And boldly walked in the light of day, On the level plain of the valley vast; Nor thought of the terrible Chippeway. Who acts: Bloody River, Nor. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 23

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The Bloody River \[40\] she reached at last, And boldly walked in the light of day, On the level plain of the valley vast; Nor thought of the terrible Chippeway.

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**Who acts:** Bloody River, Nor · **What happens:** reach, walk, think, light · **To what, where:** last, light, day

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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 (Bloody River, Nor), 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:pg8122:9:23
# text = The Bloody River [40] she reached at last, And boldly walked in the light of day, On the level plain of the valley vast; Nor thought of the terrible Chippeway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	On	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the Bloody River |  |  | last |  | star *nsubj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the Bloody River *not said here* |  |  | the light of day |  | on the level plain of the valley vast; boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | of the terrible Chippeway | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «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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