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title: 'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy savannas, And the flowers raised their heads to be kissed by the first golden beams of the morning. Who acts: Twas sunrise, flowers, first golden beams. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast o
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 1

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'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy savannas, And the flowers raised their heads to be kissed by the first golden beams of the morning.

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**Who acts:** Twas sunrise, flowers, first golden beams · **What happens:** trail, raise, kiss, beam · **To what, where:** white robes, dewy savannas, heads, morning

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twas sunrise, flowers, first golden beams), 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:pg8122:12:1
# text = 'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy savannas, And the flowers raised their heads to be kissed by the first golden beams of the morning.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	trailed	trail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	savannas	savanna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
29	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **trail** | past | Twas sunrise | spirits's white robes |  | dewy savannas |  | the spirits of mist *nsubj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme on savanna=Trajectory |
| 2 | **raise** | past | the flowers | spirits's heads |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **kiss** | to-infinitive · passive | the first golden beams of the morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beam** |  |  | the morning |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=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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