--- title: In the golden hued Wázu-pe-weé --the moon when the wild rice is gath… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: In the golden hued Wázu-pe-weé --the moon when the wild rice is gathered; When the leaves on the tall sugar-tree are as red as the breast of the robin, And the red-oaks that border the lea are aflame with the fire of the sunset, From the wide waving fields of wild-rice --from the meadows of Psin-ta- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/) / 3 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 3 In the golden hued Wázu-pe-weé --the moon when the wild rice is gathered; When the leaves on the tall sugar-tree are as red as the breast of the robin, And the red-oaks that border the lea are aflame with the fire of the sunset, From the wide waving fields of wild-rice --from the meadows of Psin-ta-wak-pá-dan, \[a\] Where the geese and the mallards rejoice, and grow fat on the bountiful harvest, Came the hunters with saddles of moose and the flesh of the bear and the bison, And the women in birchen canoes well laden with rice from the meadows, With the tall, dusky hunters, behold, came a marvelous man or a spirit, White-faced and so wrinkled and old, and clad in the robe of the raven. **Who acts:** golden, leaves, red oaks, ta, geese, women · **What happens:** hue, gather, be, wave, dan, rejoice · **To what, where:** Wázu pe weé, wild rice, fat, hunters, bountiful harvest, marvelous man This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden, leaves, red oaks, ta), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:10:3 # text = In the golden hued Wázu-pe-weé --the moon when the wild rice is gathered; When the leaves on the tall sugar-tree are as red as the breast of the robin, And the red-oaks that border the lea are aflame with the fire of the sunset, From the wide waving fields of wild-rice --from the meadows of Psin-ta-wak-pá-dan, [a] Where the geese and the mallards rejoice, and grow fat on the bountiful harvest, Came the hunters with saddles of moose and the flesh of the bear and the bison, And the women in birchen canoes well laden with rice from the meadows, With the tall, dusky hunters, behold, came a marvelous man or a spirit, White-faced and so wrinkled and old, and clad in the robe of the raven. 1 In in SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hued hue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Wázu Wázu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - 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PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hue** | past | the golden | Wázu pe weé and the moon | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gather** | present · passive | | the wild rice | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the leaves on the tall sugar tree | | | | | as the breast of the robin; the meadows *conj*; red *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the red oaks that border | | | | | with the fire of the sunset; the wide waving fields of wild rice *conj*; aflame *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wave** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dan** | | ta | | | | | of Psin | tree rules | | 7 | **rejoice** | present | the geese and the mallards | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **grow** | present | the geese and the mallards *not said here* | fat | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme | | 9 | **come** | past | | the hunters | | the bountiful harvest | | with saddles of moose and the flesh of the bear and the bison | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunter=Theme | | 10 | **laden** | present | the women in birchen canoes | | | | | with rice; well *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **come** | past | | a marvelous man or a spirit | | the meadows with the tall dusky hunters | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from meadow=Initial\_Location | | 12 | **wrinkle** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 13 | **clad** | past | | | | the robe of the raven | | | tree rules | | 14 | **fire** | | | the sunset | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/4/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/)