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title: Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But the proud, imperious beauty made her sad forevermore. Who acts: star, proud imperious beauty. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 21

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Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But the proud, imperious beauty made her sad forevermore.

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**Who acts:** star, proud imperious beauty · **What happens:** strive, do, bear, make · **To what, where:** duty, eyed babe, star

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, proud imperious beauty), 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:pg8122:17:21
# text = Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But the proud, imperious beauty made her sad forevermore.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	imperious	imperious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	forevermore	forevermore	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | past | star |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | star *not said here* | star's duty |  |  |  | for the eyed babe | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bear** | past | star | the eyed babe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | the proud imperious beauty | star |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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