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title: From sunrise till sunset she sped; half-famished she camped in the t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From sunrise till sunset she sped; half-famished she camped in the thicket; In the cold snow she made her lone bed; on the buds of the birch [a] made her supper. Who acts: Ta, birch. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its depend
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 27

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From sunrise till sunset she sped; half-famished she camped in the thicket; In the cold snow she made her lone bed; on the buds of the birch \[a\] made her supper.

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**Who acts:** Ta, birch · **What happens:** speed, famish, camp, make · **To what, where:** buds, thicket, lone bed, Winona, cold snow, supper

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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 (Ta, birch), 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:pg8122:14:27
# text = From sunrise till sunset she sped; half-famished she camped in the thicket; In the cold snow she made her lone bed; on the buds of the birch [a] made her supper.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	till	till	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	camped	camp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | Ta |  |  | the buds of the birch | sunrise |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **famish** | participle | Ta *not said here* |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **camp** | past | Ta |  |  | the thicket |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | Ta | lone bed | Winona | the cold snow |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bed=Product |
| 5 | **make** | past | the birch *not said here* | Ta's supper |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product |

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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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