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title: And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the ru… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the rushes, Till the sun sought his teepee she sat, enchanted with what he related Of the white winged ships on the sea and the teepees far over the ocean, Of the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin. Who acts
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 32

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And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the rushes, Till the sun sought his teepee she sat, enchanted with what he related Of the white winged ships on the sea and the teepees far over the ocean, Of the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin.

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**Who acts:** sun, teepee, Winona · **What happens:** braid, seek, sit, enchant, relate, wing · **To what, where:** flags, teepee, ships, sea

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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 (sun, teepee, Winona), 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:pg8122:10:32
# text = And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the rushes, Till the sun sought his teepee she sat, enchanted with what he related Of the white winged ships on the sea and the teepees far over the ocean, Of the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	deftly	deftly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	braiding	braid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
36	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
43	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	Virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braid** | gerund |  | the flags and the rushes |  |  |  | deftly *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | teepee | Winona's teepee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teepee=Theme |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  | Winona's teepee *not said here* |  |  |  | with Winona's teepee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **relate** | past | Winona |  |  |  |  | of the white | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wing** | past | Winona's teepee | ships |  | the sea and the teepees |  | over the ocean; the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin *parataxis* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme over ocean=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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