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title: [86] Far rolling away to the north, and the south, lay the emerald p… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [86] Far rolling away to the north, and the south, lay the emerald prairies, Alternate with woodlands and lakes, and above them the blue vast of ether. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 78

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\[86\] Far rolling away to the north, and the south, lay the emerald prairies, Alternate with woodlands and lakes, and above them the blue vast of ether.

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**What happens:** roll away, lay · **To what, where:** north, emerald prairies, 86

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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: 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:pg8122:9:78
# text = [86] Far rolling away to the north, and the south, lay the emerald prairies, Alternate with woodlands and lakes, and above them the blue vast of ether.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	86	86	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Alternate	alternate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll away** | gerund |  |  |  | the north |  | away, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to north=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | present |  | the emerald prairies |  |  |  | the blue vast above lakes of ether *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prairie=Result |

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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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