--- title: Half-robed in their dark, flowing hair, and limbed like the fair Aph… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Half-robed in their dark, flowing hair, and limbed like the fair Aphroditè, They played in the waters, and there they dived and they swam like the beavers,-- Loud-laughing like loons on the lake when the moon is a round shield of silver, And the songs of the whippowils wake on the shore in the midst --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/63/) [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/) / 63 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 63 Half-robed in their dark, flowing hair, and limbed like the fair Aphroditè, They played in the waters, and there they dived and they swam like the beavers,-- Loud-laughing like loons on the lake when the moon is a round shield of silver, And the songs of the whippowils wake on the shore in the midst of the maples. **Who acts:** end, moon, songs, whippowils · **What happens:** robe, flow, limb, play, dive, swim · **To what, where:** waters, lake, round shield, shore 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 (end, moon, songs, whippowils), 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:pg8122:10:63 # text = Half-robed in their dark, flowing hair, and limbed like the fair Aphroditè, They played in the waters, and there they dived and they swam like the beavers,-- Loud-laughing like loons on the lake when the moon is a round shield of silver, And the songs of the whippowils wake on the shore in the midst of the maples. 1 Half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 robed robe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 limbed limb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Aphroditè Aphroditè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 dived dive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 advcl _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 loons loon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 50 advmod _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 54 And and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 whippowils whippowil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 60 wake wake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 61 on on ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 maples maple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **robe** | participle | | | | | | in end's dark flowing hair; Half *compound* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in hair=Theme | | 2 | **flow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **limb** | participle | | | | | | like the fair Aphroditè | tree rules | | 4 | **play** | past | end | | | the waters | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dive** | past | end | | | there | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **swim** | past | end | | | | | like the beavers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **laugh** | gerund | end *not said here* | | | the lake | | like loons | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | the moon | a round shield | | | | of silver | tree rules | | 9 | **wake** | present | the songs of the whippowils | | | the shore in the midst of the maples | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **sing** | | the whippowils | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/64/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/)