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title: Thus sadly she chanted, and lo --allured by her sorrowful accents--… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus sadly she chanted, and lo --allured by her sorrowful accents-- From the dark covert crept a red doe and wondrously gazed on Winona. Who acts: Hé. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 54

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Thus sadly she chanted, and lo --allured by her sorrowful accents-- From the dark covert crept a red doe and wondrously gazed on Winona.

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**Who acts:** Hé · **What happens:** chant, allure, creep, gaze, accent · **To what, where:** red doe, dark covert

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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 (Hé), 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:pg8122:14:54
# text = Thus sadly she chanted, and lo --allured by her sorrowful accents-- From the dark covert crept a red doe and wondrously gazed on Winona.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chanted	chant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	allured	allure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	From	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	covert	covert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | past | Hé |  |  |  |  | by Hé's allured sorrowful accents; sadly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **allure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **creep** | past |  | a red doe |  | the dark covert |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location doe=Theme |
| 4 | **gaze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on Winona; wondrously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on winona=Theme |
| 5 | **accent** |  | Hé |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication 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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