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title: And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the m… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the mountains, Wa-kin-yan, [32] the huge Thunder-Bird, --with the arrows of fire in his talons. Who acts: spirits. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 84

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And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the mountains, Wa-kin-yan, \[32\] the huge Thunder-Bird, --with the arrows of fire in his talons.

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**Who acts:** spirits · **What happens:** hear, fly · **To what, where:** huge Thunder Bird, talons, tee · **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 (spirits), 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:pg8122:9:84
# text = And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the mountains, Wa-kin-yan, [32] the huge Thunder-Bird, --with the arrows of fire in his talons.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	yan	yan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | spirits *= spirit* | the huge Thunder Bird and the arrows of fire |  | Oft's talons; here |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  | Oft's tee in the mountains and Wa kin yan |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tee=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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