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title: [a] And now at the end of the day, by the shore of the Beautiful Isl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] And now at the end of the day, by the shore of the Beautiful Island, [b] A score of fair maidens and gay made joy in the midst of the waters. Who acts: gay. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 62

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\[a\] And now at the end of the day, by the shore of the Beautiful Island, \[b\] A score of fair maidens and gay made joy in the midst of the waters.

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**Who acts:** gay · **What happens:** make, score · **To what, where:** joy, midst, end, fair maidens

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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 (gay), 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:pg8122:10:62
# text = [a] And now at the end of the day, by the shore of the Beautiful Island, [b] A score of fair maidens and gay made joy in the midst of the waters.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **make** | participle | gay *not said here* | joy |  | the midst of the waters |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joy=Product |
| 3 | **score** |  |  | fair maidens and gay |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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