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title: Three times, in the night, at her bed, had the brave held the torch… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Three times, in the night, at her bed, had the brave held the torch of the lover, [75]And thrice had she covered her head and rejected the handsome Tamdóka. Who acts: thrice. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 54

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Three times, in the night, at her bed, had the brave held the torch of the lover, \[75\]And thrice had she covered her head and rejected the handsome Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** thrice · **What happens:** have, hold, cover, reject · **To what, where:** brave held torch, head, handsome Tamdóka

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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 (thrice), 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:pg8122:10:54
# text = Three times, in the night, at her bed, had the brave held the torch of the lover, [75]And thrice had she covered her head and rejected the handsome Tamdóka.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the brave held torch of the lover |  |  | time | 75 *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | thrice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | past | thrice | Master's head |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Destination |
| 5 | **reject** | past | thrice *not said here* | the handsome Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Theme |

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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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