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title: Toiling hands have forgotten their care; e'en the brooks have forgot… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Toiling hands have forgotten their care; e'en the brooks have forgotten to murmur; But hark!--there's a sound on the air! --'tis the light-rustling robes of the Spirits. Who acts: Toiling hands, brooks, sound, hands. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 5

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Toiling hands have forgotten their care; e'en the brooks have forgotten to murmur; But hark!--there's a sound on the air! --'tis the light-rustling robes of the Spirits.

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**Who acts:** Toiling hands, brooks, sound, hands · **What happens:** toil, forget, not murmur, be, rustle, care · **To what, where:** care, air

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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 (Toiling hands, brooks, sound, hands), 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:pg8122:13:5
# text = Toiling hands have forgotten their care; e'en the brooks have forgotten to murmur; But hark!--there's a sound on the air! --'tis the light-rustling robes of the Spirits.
1	Toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	e'en	e'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	murmur	murmur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hark	hark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
28	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present · perfect | Toiling hands | hands's care |  |  |  | tis the rustling robes of the Spirits; e'en *obl*; hark *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | present · perfect | the brooks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **murmur** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the brooks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | present | a sound |  |  | the air; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location |
| 6 | **rustle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | light *compound* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **care** |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act 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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