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title: As the thought of a loved one and lost, sad and sweet were her thoug… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: As the thought of a loved one and lost, sad and sweet were her thoughts of the White Chief; In the moon's mellow light, like a ghost, walked Winona alone by the Ha-ha, Ever wrapped in a dream. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 100

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As the thought of a loved one and lost, sad and sweet were her thoughts of the White Chief; In the moon's mellow light, like a ghost, walked Winona alone by the Ha-ha, Ever wrapped in a dream.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** love, lose, be, walk, wrap, think · **To what, where:** sad thoughts, Winona, dream, loved one

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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:pg8122:14:100
# text = As the thought of a loved one and lost, sad and sweet were her thoughts of the White Chief; In the moon's mellow light, like a ghost, walked Winona alone by the Ha-ha, Ever wrapped in a dream.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	mellow	mellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Ha	Ha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | star's sad thoughts |  |  |  | of the White Chief; star *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | past |  | Winona |  |  |  | by the Ha; alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent winona=Theme by ha=Trajectory |
| 5 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | a dream | ever |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in dream=Destination |
| 7 | **think** |  |  | a loved one |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **light** |  | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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