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title: Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Su… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer, Since here on the oak shaded shore of the dark winding swift Mississippi, Where his foaming floods tumble and roar, on the falls and white rolling rapids, In the fair, fabled center of Earth, sat the Indian town of Ka-thá-ga. 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 77

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Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer, Since here on the oak shaded shore of the dark winding swift Mississippi, Where his foaming floods tumble and roar, on the falls and white rolling rapids, In the fair, fabled center of Earth, sat the Indian town of Ka-thá-ga.

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**Who acts:** hundred white Winters, foaming floods, sound · **What happens:** flee, shade, tumble, roar, roll, fable · **To what, where:** face, falls, center, Indian town

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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 (hundred white Winters, foaming floods, sound), 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:pg8122:9:77
# text = Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer, Since here on the oak shaded shore of the dark winding swift Mississippi, Where his foaming floods tumble and roar, on the falls and white rolling rapids, In the fair, fabled center of Earth, sat the Indian town of Ka-thá-ga.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tumble	tumble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	roar	roar	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	amod	_	_
44	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	In	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	fabled	fable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
51	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	thá	thá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	ga	ga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present · perfect | hundred white Winters |  |  | the face of the Summer |  | the oak and shaded shore of the swift Mississippi *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tumble** | present | sound's foaming floods |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **roar** | present | sound's foaming floods *not said here* | the falls and white rolling rapids and the fair |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fall=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fable** | past |  | center of Earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sit** | past |  | the Indian town of Ka thá |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme |
| 8 | **flood** |  | sound |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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