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title: All the maidens were wild with delight with the flaming red robes an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: All the maidens were wild with delight with the flaming red robes and the ribbons, With the beads and the trinkets untold, and the fair, bearded face of the giver; And glad were they all to behold the friends from the Land of the Sunrise. Who acts: maidens, trinkets. A sentence of «Legends of the No
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 77

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All the maidens were wild with delight with the flaming red robes and the ribbons, With the beads and the trinkets untold, and the fair, bearded face of the giver; And glad were they all to behold the friends from the Land of the Sunrise.

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**Who acts:** maidens, trinkets · **What happens:** be, flame, behold · **To what, where:** trinkets, friends, Land

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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 (maidens, trinkets), 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:pg8122:10:77
# text = All the maidens were wild with delight with the flaming red robes and the ribbons, With the beads and the trinkets untold, and the fair, bearded face of the giver; And glad were they all to behold the friends from the Land of the Sunrise.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	With	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
23	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | all maidens |  |  |  |  | with delight; with the flaming red robes and the ribbons and the beads and the trinkets; the fair bearded face of the giver *obl*; wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flame** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | trinkets *= trinket* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | trinkets *= trinket* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **behold** | to-infinitive | trinkets *= trinket* *not said here* | the friends |  | the Land of the Sunrise |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |

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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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