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title: A rustle of robes on the grass broke his dream as he mused by the wa… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: A rustle of robes on the grass broke his dream as he mused by the waters, And, turning, he looked on the face of Winona, wild rose of the prairies, Half hid in her forest of hair, like the round, golden moon in the pine tops. Who acts: rustle, Half, robes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 5

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A rustle of robes on the grass broke his dream as he mused by the waters, And, turning, he looked on the face of Winona, wild rose of the prairies, Half hid in her forest of hair, like the round, golden moon in the pine tops.

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**Who acts:** rustle, Half, robes · **What happens:** break, muse, turn, look, hide, rustle · **To what, where:** dream, forest

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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 (rustle, Half, robes), 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:pg8122:12:5
# text = A rustle of robes on the grass broke his dream as he mused by the waters, And, turning, he looked on the face of Winona, wild rose of the prairies, Half hid in her forest of hair, like the round, golden moon in the pine tops.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	mused	muse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	Half	Half	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **break** | past | a rustle of robes on the grass | rustle's dream |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Patient |
| 2 | **muse** | past | rustle |  |  |  |  | by the waters | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | rustle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | rustle |  |  |  |  | on the face of Winona and wild rose of the prairies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | past | Half |  |  | Half's forest of hair |  | like the round and golden moon; in the pine tops | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
| 6 | **rustle** |  | robes on the grass |  |  |  |  |  | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **dream** |  | rustle |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition 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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