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title: From the heads of the maples the west-wind Plucks the red-and-gold p… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the heads of the maples the west-wind Plucks the red-and-gold plumage and grieves on the meads for the rose and the lily; Their brown leaves the moaning oaks strew, and the breezes that roam on the prairies, Low-whistling and wanton pursue the down of the silk weed and thistle. Who acts: west w
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 52

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From the heads of the maples the west-wind Plucks the red-and-gold plumage and grieves on the meads for the rose and the lily; Their brown leaves the moaning oaks strew, and the breezes that roam on the prairies, Low-whistling and wanton pursue the down of the silk weed and thistle.

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**Who acts:** west wind, brown, moaning oaks, breezes · **What happens:** pluck, grieve, leave, strew, roam, pursue · **To what, where:** red gold plumage, heads, meads, prairies, down

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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 (west wind, brown, moaning oaks, breezes), 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:pg8122:13:52
# text = From the heads of the maples the west-wind Plucks the red-and-gold plumage and grieves on the meads for the rose and the lily; Their brown leaves the moaning oaks strew, and the breezes that roam on the prairies, Low-whistling and wanton pursue the down of the silk weed and thistle.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Plucks	pluck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grieves	grieve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meads	mead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	strew	strew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	whistling	whistling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	wanton	wanton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | present | the west wind | the red gold plumage |  | the heads of the maples |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme from head=Source |
| 2 | **grieve** | present | the west wind *not said here* |  |  | the meads for the rose and the lily |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **leave** | present | winds's brown |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strew** | present | the moaning oaks |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **roam** | present | the breezes |  |  | the prairies |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Trajectory |
| 6 | **pursue** | present | the breezes | the down of the silk weed and thistle |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent down=Theme |

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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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