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title: She could hear the steeds Come galloping on o'er the level meads; An… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: She could hear the steeds Come galloping on o'er the level meads; And lowly she crouched in the waving grass, And hoped against hope that the braves would pass. Who acts: band, steeds, braves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 30

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She could hear the steeds Come galloping on o'er the level meads; And lowly she crouched in the waving grass, And hoped against hope that the braves would pass.

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**Who acts:** band, steeds, braves · **What happens:** hear, come, gallop, crouch, hope, pass · **To what, where:** level meads, waving grass, hope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (band, steeds, braves), 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:pg8122:9:30
# text = She could hear the steeds Come galloping on o'er the level meads; And lowly she crouched in the waving grass, And hoped against hope that the braves would pass.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	meads	mead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lowly	lowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	waving	waving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could | band |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the steeds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gallop** | gerund | the steeds *not said here* |  |  | the level meads |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mead=Trajectory |
| 4 | **crouch** | past | band |  |  | the waving grass |  | lowly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location |
| 5 | **hope** | past | band *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against hope | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **pass** | would | the braves | hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hope=Trajectory |

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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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