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title: With the waning of winter, alas, waned the life of the aged Tatépsin… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: With the waning of winter, alas, waned the life of the aged Tatépsin; Ere the blue pansies peeped from the grass, to the Land of the Spirits he journeyed; Like a babe in its slumber he passed, or the snow from the hill tops in April; And the dark-eyed Winona, at last, stood alone by the graves of he
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 80

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With the waning of winter, alas, waned the life of the aged Tatépsin; Ere the blue pansies peeped from the grass, to the Land of the Spirits he journeyed; Like a babe in its slumber he passed, or the snow from the hill tops in April; And the dark-eyed Winona, at last, stood alone by the graves of her kindred.

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**Who acts:** land, eyed Winona, winter, grass · **What happens:** wane, peep, journey, pass, stand, slumber · **To what, where:** life, blue pansies, Spirits, slumber

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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 (land, eyed Winona, winter, grass), 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:pg8122:14:80
# text = With the waning of winter, alas, waned the life of the aged Tatépsin; Ere the blue pansies peeped from the grass, to the Land of the Spirits he journeyed; Like a babe in its slumber he passed, or the snow from the hill tops in April; And the dark-eyed Winona, at last, stood alone by the graves of her kindred.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waning	waning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	waned	wane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Tatépsin	Tatépsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pansies	pansy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
54	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
56	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
64	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
65	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
66	by	by	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obl	_	_
69	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
70	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
71	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wane** | past |  | the life of the aged Tatépsin and the blue pansies |  |  |  | with the waning of winter and alas; to the Land of the Spirits; a babe in grass's slumber or the snow from the hill tops in April *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep** | participle |  | the blue pansies *not said here* |  |  |  | from the grass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from grass=Theme |
| 3 | **journey** | past | land | the Spirits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spirit=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pass** | past | land | grass's slumber *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slumber=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the eyed Winona |  |  |  |  | by the graves; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location |
| 6 | **wane** |  | winter |  |  |  |  |  | nom waning «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **slumber** |  | grass |  |  |  |  |  | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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