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title: But one stood apart from the rest --the queenly and peerless Winona,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But one stood apart from the rest --the queenly and peerless Winona, Intently regarding the guest --hardly heeding the robes and the ribbons, Whom the White Chief beholding admired, and straightway he spread on her shoulders A lily-red robe and attired, with necklet and ribbons, the maiden. Who acts
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 78

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But one stood apart from the rest --the queenly and peerless Winona, Intently regarding the guest --hardly heeding the robes and the ribbons, Whom the White Chief beholding admired, and straightway he spread on her shoulders A lily-red robe and attired, with necklet and ribbons, the maiden.

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**Who acts:** one, White Chief, straightway · **What happens:** stand apart, regard, heed, behold, admire, spread · **To what, where:** rest, robes, shoulders, necklet

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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 (one, White Chief, straightway), 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:pg8122:10:78
# text = But one stood apart from the rest --the queenly and peerless Winona, Intently regarding the guest --hardly heeding the robes and the ribbons, Whom the White Chief beholding admired, and straightway he spread on her shoulders A lily-red robe and attired, with necklet and ribbons, the maiden.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	peerless	peerless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	heeding	heed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	acl:relcl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	necklet	necklet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand apart** | past | one |  |  | the rest  the queenly Winona |  | regard the guest; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | intently *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **heed** | gerund | one *not said here* | the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief  the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief  the robes |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 4 | **behold** | gerund | the White Chief  the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief  the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **admire** | participle | the White Chief  the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief  the robes and the ribbons and the White Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **spread** | past | straightway |  |  | land's shoulders  a lily red robe |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location |
| 7 | **attire** | participle | straightway *not said here* | necklet and ribbons |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklet=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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