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title: But still on the swift river's strand, admiring the graceful Winona,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But still on the swift river's strand, admiring the graceful Winona, As she gathered, with brown, dimpled hand, her hair from the wind, stood the Frenchman. Who acts: strand. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 41

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But still on the swift river's strand, admiring the graceful Winona, As she gathered, with brown, dimpled hand, her hair from the wind, stood the Frenchman.

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**Who acts:** strand · **What happens:** admire, gather, dimple, stand · **To what, where:** graceful Winona, Frenchman

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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 (strand), 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:pg8122:12:42
# text = But still on the swift river's strand, admiring the graceful Winona, As she gathered, with brown, dimpled hand, her hair from the wind, stood the Frenchman.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	dimpled	dimple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	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 | **admire** | gerund | the swift river's strand *not said here* | the graceful Winona |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gather** | past | strand |  |  |  |  | with brown dimpled hand and strand's hair from the wind | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **dimple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the swift river's strand | the Frenchman |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frenchman=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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