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title: In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 95

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In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** darkle, gleam, hue · **To what, where:** fitful light, hued faces

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:12:96
# text = In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fitful	fitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	darkle	darkle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gleam	gleam	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hued	hue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **darkle** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the fitful light |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gleam** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the hued faces |  |  |  | around face | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 3 | **hue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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