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title: In the twilight of sundown she sat, in the forest, all weak and desp… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the twilight of sundown she sat, in the forest, all weak and despairing; Ta-té-psin's bow lay at her feet, and his otter skin quiver of arrows. " Who acts: pheasant, bow, arrows. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 32

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In the twilight of sundown she sat, in the forest, all weak and despairing; Ta-té-psin's bow lay at her feet, and his otter skin quiver of arrows. "

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**Who acts:** pheasant, bow, arrows · **What happens:** sit, despair, lie, quiver · **To what, where:** twilight, skin quiver, feet

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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 (pheasant, bow, arrows), 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:pg8122:14:32
# text = In the twilight of sundown she sat, in the forest, all weak and despairing; Ta-té-psin's bow lay at her feet, and his otter skin quiver of arrows. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	despairing	despair	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | pheasant |  |  | the twilight of sundown |  | in the forest | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in twilight=Location |
| 2 | **despair** | gerund | pheasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Ta té psin's bow | skin quiver of arrows |  | pheasant's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 4 | **quiver** |  | arrows |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=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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