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title: Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mou… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains, And the lofty cliff evermore tells to the years as they pass her sad story. Who acts: evermore dwells, dwells. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, with its de
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 16

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Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains, And the lofty cliff evermore tells to the years as they pass her sad story.

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**Who acts:** evermore dwells, dwells · **What happens:** tell, pass · **To what, where:** sad story, brant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evermore dwells, dwells), 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:pg8122:15:16
# text = Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains, And the lofty cliff evermore tells to the years as they pass her sad story.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	evermore	evermore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dwells	dwell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	evermore	evermore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | brant's evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains |  |  |  | year | the lofty cliff evermore *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | present | dwells *= dwell* | sad story | brant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Theme |

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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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