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title: Still hope, like a star in the night gleaming oft through the broken… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Still hope, like a star in the night gleaming oft through the broken clouds somber, Cheered the heart of Winona, and bright, on her dreams, beamed the face of the Frenchman. Who acts: star, Still hope, Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgin
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 99

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Still hope, like a star in the night gleaming oft through the broken clouds somber, Cheered the heart of Winona, and bright, on her dreams, beamed the face of the Frenchman.

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**Who acts:** star, Still hope, Winona · **What happens:** gleam, break, cheer, beam, dream · **To what, where:** broken clouds somber, heart, face

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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 (star, Still hope, Winona), 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:pg8122:14:99
# text = Still hope, like a star in the night gleaming oft through the broken clouds somber, Cheered the heart of Winona, and bright, on her dreams, beamed the face of the Frenchman.
1	Still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
11	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	somber	somber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	Cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **gleam** | gerund | a star in the night *not said here* |  |  | the broken clouds somber |  | oft *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through somber=Location |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cheer** | past | Still hope and a star in the night | the heart of Winona |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
| 4 | **beam** | past | Still hope and a star in the night *not said here* | the face of the Frenchman |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Winona |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «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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