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title: Down-wimpling and murmuring there, twixt two dewy hills winds a stre… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Down-wimpling and murmuring there, twixt two dewy hills winds a streamlet, Like a long, flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in her slumber. Who acts: wimpling, maid. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency t
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 35

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Down-wimpling and murmuring there, twixt two dewy hills winds a streamlet, Like a long, flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in her slumber.

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**Who acts:** wimpling, maid · **What happens:** murmur, wind, slumber · **To what, where:** streamlet

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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: who acts (wimpling, maid), 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:pg8122:13:35
# text = Down-wimpling and murmuring there, twixt two dewy hills winds a streamlet, Like a long, flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in her slumber.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wimpling	wimpling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	twixt	twixt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	streamlet	streamlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ringlet	ringlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | wimpling and twixt *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wind** | present | wimpling and twixt | a streamlet |  |  |  | like a long flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in maid's slumber; down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent streamlet=Theme |
| 3 | **slumber** |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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