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title: [76] For the "Black Robe" spake much of his youth and his friends in… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [76] For the "Black Robe" spake much of his youth and his friends in the Land of the Sunrise; It was then as a dream, now in truth, I behold them, and not in a vision." Who acts: robe, I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its d
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 81

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\[76\] For the "Black Robe" spake much of his youth and his friends in the Land of the Sunrise; It was then as a dream, now in truth, I behold them, and not in a vision."

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**Who acts:** robe, I · **What happens:** be, behold · **To what, where:** friends, truth, 76

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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 (robe, I), 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:pg8122:10:81
# text = [76] For the "Black Robe" spake much of his youth and his friends in the Land of the Sunrise; It was then as a dream, now in truth, I behold them, and not in a vision."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	For	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	behold	behold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | robe |  |  |  | then | as a dream; a vision *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | present | I | friends *= friend* |  | truth | now |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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