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title: From the brow of the Beautiful Isle, [a] half hid in the midst of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the brow of the Beautiful Isle, [a] half hid in the midst of the maples, The sad-faced Winona, the while, watched the boat growing less in the distance. Who acts: half, boat. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependenc
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 77

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From the brow of the Beautiful Isle, \[a\] half hid in the midst of the maples, The sad-faced Winona, the while, watched the boat growing less in the distance.

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**Who acts:** half, boat · **What happens:** hide, watch, grow · **To what, where:** brow, boat

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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 (half, boat), 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:pg8122:12:78
# text = From the brow of the Beautiful Isle, [a] half hid in the midst of the maples, The sad-faced Winona, the while, watched the boat growing less in the distance.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **hide** | past | a half |  |  | the brow of the Beautiful Isle |  | in the midst of the maples  the faced Winona | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from brow=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **watch** | past | a half *not said here* | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | the boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance; less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |

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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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