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title: Blow, breezes,--blow softly and sing in the dark, flowing hair of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Blow, breezes,--blow softly and sing in the dark, flowing hair of the maiden; But never again shall you bring the voice that she loves to Winona. Who acts: Blow, you, voice. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 80

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Blow, breezes,--blow softly and sing in the dark, flowing hair of the maiden; But never again shall you bring the voice that she loves to Winona.

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**Who acts:** Blow, you, voice · **What happens:** blow, sing, flow, bring, love · **To what, where:** dark, hair, voice, Winona

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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 (Blow, you, voice), 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:pg8122:12:81
# text = Blow, breezes,--blow softly and sing in the dark, flowing hair of the maiden; But never again shall you bring the voice that she loves to Winona.
1	Blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | infinitive | Blow and breezes |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Blow and breezes *not said here* |  |  | the dark |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | Blow and breezes *not said here* | hair of the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | shall | you | the voice |  |  | again; never |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | present | voice |  | Winona |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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