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title: [a] In my old age forsaken and blind! — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] In my old age forsaken and blind! A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 100

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\[a\] In my old age forsaken and blind!

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**What happens:** forsake · **To what, where:** old age, a

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:13:100
# text = [a] In my old age forsaken and blind!
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  | in my old age |  | 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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