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title: But more spake her blushes, I ween, and her eyes full of language un… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But more spake her blushes, I ween, and her eyes full of language unspoken, As she turned with the grace of a queen, and carried her gifts to the teepee. Who acts: I, land. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 82

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But more spake her blushes, I ween, and her eyes full of language unspoken, As she turned with the grace of a queen, and carried her gifts to the teepee.

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**Who acts:** I, land · **What happens:** ween, turn, carry, blush, gift · **To what, where:** eyes, gifts, teepee

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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 (I, land), 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:pg8122:10:82
# text = But more spake her blushes, I ween, and her eyes full of language unspoken, As she turned with the grace of a queen, and carried her gifts to the teepee.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	blushes	blush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ween	ween	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	unspoken	unspoken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ween** | present | I | land's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | land |  |  |  |  | with the grace of a queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | land *not said here* | land's gifts |  | the teepee |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to teepee=Destination |
| 5 | **blush** |  | land |  |  |  |  |  | nom blush «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **gift** |  | land |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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