---
title: And lo--from afar o'er the level plain-- As far as the sails of a sh… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo--from afar o'er the level plain-- As far as the sails of a ship at sea May be seen as they lift from the rolling main-- A band of warriors rode rapidly. Who acts: sails, band. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its depend
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/) / 25

# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 25

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And lo--from afar o'er the level plain-- As far as the sails of a ship at sea May be seen as they lift from the rolling main-- A band of warriors rode rapidly.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sails, band · **What happens:** see, lift, roll, ride · **To what, where:** May

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (sails, band), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:9:25
# text = And lo--from afar o'er the level plain-- As far as the sails of a ship at sea May be seen as they lift from the rolling main-- A band of warriors rode rapidly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	As	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
37	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive · passive |  | May |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lift** | present | sails *= sail* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | past | a band of warriors |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/24/)
- next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/26/)
- ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)