--- title: Admiring he gazed--she was fair as his own blooming Flore in her orc… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Admiring he gazed--she was fair as his own blooming Flore in her orchards, With her golden locks loose on the air, like the gleam of the sun through the olives, Far away on the vine-covered shore, in the sun-favored land of his fathers. " Who acts: rustle, Half. 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" **Who acts:** rustle, Half · **What happens:** admire, gaze, be, bloom, cover, favor · **To what, where:** favored land, Flore, orchards 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:12:6 # text = Admiring he gazed--she was fair as his own blooming Flore in her orchards, With her golden locks loose on the air, like the gleam of the sun through the olives, Far away on the vine-covered shore, in the sun-favored land of his fathers. " 1 Admiring admire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 -- -- PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 11 blooming bloom VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 Flore Flore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 orchards orchard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 With with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 21 loose loose ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gleam gleam NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 vine vine NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 47 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 favored favor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admire** | gerund | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **gaze** | past | rustle | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Half | | | the favored land of rustle's fathers | | as rustle's own; with Half's golden locks on the air and the gleam of the sun through the olives; fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bloom** | gerund | Half *not said here* | Flore | | Half's orchards | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flore=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | vine *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **favor** | participle | | | | | | sun *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/7/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)