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title: Out-stretching her long, iron arms o'er an empire of Saxons and Norm… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Out-stretching her long, iron arms o'er an empire of Saxons and Normans. 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 42

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Out-stretching her long, iron arms o'er an empire of Saxons and Normans.

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**What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** long iron arms

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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:pg8122:13:42
# text = Out-stretching her long, iron arms o'er an empire of Saxons and Normans.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Normans	Norman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | gerund |  | Europe's long iron arms |  |  |  | o'er a empire of Saxons and Normans; out *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

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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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