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title: But hearken ye now to my words, --let them sound in your bosoms fore… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But hearken ye now to my words, --let them sound in your bosoms forever. Who acts: you, words, my, your. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 75

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But hearken ye now to my words, --let them sound in your bosoms forever.

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**Who acts:** you, words, my, your · **What happens:** hearken, let, sound, word, bosom · **To what, where:** ye, words, bosoms

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, words, my, your), 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:pg8122:11:75
# text = But hearken ye now to my words, --let them sound in your bosoms forever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bosoms	bosom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  | now | to my words | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* |  |  | your bosoms |  | forever *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bosom=Location |
| 4 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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