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title: On the wings of the spring come the geese and the mallards; On the b… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the wings of the spring come the geese and the mallards; On the bare oak the red-robin sings, and the crocuses peep on the prairies, And the bobolink pipes, but he brings, of the blue-eyed, brave White Chief, no tidings. Who acts: you, red robin, crocuses, robin. A sentence of «Legends of the Nor
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 79

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On the wings of the spring come the geese and the mallards; On the bare oak the red-robin sings, and the crocuses peep on the prairies, And the bobolink pipes, but he brings, of the blue-eyed, brave White Chief, no tidings.

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**Who acts:** you, red robin, crocuses, robin · **What happens:** come, sing, peep, bring · **To what, where:** geese, wings, bobolink pipes, bare oak

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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 (you, red robin, crocuses, robin), 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:pg8122:14:79
# text = On the wings of the spring come the geese and the mallards; On the bare oak the red-robin sings, and the crocuses peep on the prairies, And the bobolink pipes, but he brings, of the blue-eyed, brave White Chief, no tidings.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mallards	mallard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	crocuses	crocus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	peep	peep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	bobolink	bobolink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
43	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | the geese and the mallards |  | the wings of the spring |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goose=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the red robin | the bobolink pipes |  | the bare oak |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on oak=Location |
| 3 | **peep** | present | the crocuses |  |  |  |  | on the prairies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on prairie=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | present | robin |  |  |  |  | of the eyed brave White Chief and no tidings | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of chief=Initial\_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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