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title: Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey, Her red, welcome burde… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey, Her red, welcome burden she laid at the feet of her famishing father. Who acts: Ere, sun. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 70

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Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey, Her red, welcome burden she laid at the feet of her famishing father.

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**Who acts:** Ere, sun · **What happens:** reach, lay, famish, journey, burden · **To what, where:** midst, red welcome burden, 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 (Ere, sun), 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:pg8122:14:70
# text = Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey, Her red, welcome burden she laid at the feet of her famishing father.
1	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	famishing	famish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Ere | the midst of sun's journey and Ere's red welcome burden |  |  |  | the sun *nsubj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent midst=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Ere | Ere's red welcome burden *not said here* |  | the feet of Ere's famishing father |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 3 | **famish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **journey** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **burden** |  | Ere |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition 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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