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title: Then, slyly she slipped from her snug retreat, And guiding her cours… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, slyly she slipped from her snug retreat, And guiding her course by Wazíya's star, [62] That shone through the shadowy forms afar, She northward hurried with silent feet; And long ere the sky was aflame in the east, She was leagues from the place of the fatal feast. ' Who acts: Wiwâstè, That, s
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 7

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Then, slyly she slipped from her snug retreat, And guiding her course by Wazíya's star, \[62\] That shone through the shadowy forms afar, She northward hurried with silent feet; And long ere the sky was aflame in the east, She was leagues from the place of the fatal feast. '

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, That, shadowy, long, sky · **What happens:** slip, guide, shine, form, hurry, ere · **To what, where:** 62, course, east, leagues, place

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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 (Wiwâstè, That, shadowy, long), 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:pg8122:9:7
# text = Then, slyly she slipped from her snug retreat, And guiding her course by Wazíya's star, [62] That shone through the shadowy forms afar, She northward hurried with silent feet; And long ere the sky was aflame in the east, She was leagues from the place of the fatal feast. '
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	slyly	slyly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	snug	snug	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	guiding	guide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Wazíya	Wazíya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
29	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
40	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	aflame	aflame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	ccomp	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
60	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | past | Wiwâstè | 62 |  |  | then | from Wiwâstè's snug retreat; slyly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from retreat=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **guide** | gerund | Wiwâstè *not said here* | Wiwâstè's course |  |  |  | by Wazíya's star | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme by star=Destination |
| 3 | **shine** | past | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | present | the shadowy |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hurry** | past | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | with silent feet; northward *property* | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with foot=Eventuality |
| 6 | **ere** | past | long |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  | the east |  | aflame *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Wiwâstè | leagues |  | the place of the fatal feast |  |  | tree rules |

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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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