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title: Ah, no; I am half in a dream! --'twas the mem'ry of days long depart… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, no; I am half in a dream! --'twas the mem'ry of days long departed; But the birds of the green Summer seem to be singing above in the branches." Who acts: I, birds. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 42

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Ah, no; I am half in a dream! --'twas the mem'ry of days long departed; But the birds of the green Summer seem to be singing above in the branches."

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**Who acts:** I, birds · **What happens:** be, depart, seem, sing · **To what, where:** dream, days, branches

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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 (I, birds), 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:pg8122:14:42
# text = Ah, no; I am half in a dream! --'twas the mem'ry of days long departed; But the birds of the green Summer seem to be singing above in the branches."
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mem'ry	mem'ry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	above	above	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a dream |  | twas and the mem'ry of days *appos*; half *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | participle |  | days *not said here* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | the birds of the green Summer |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive · progressive | the birds of the green Summer *not said here* |  |  | the branches |  | above *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |

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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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