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title: Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the fare; Patient ever, murmuring never, while her cheeks were creased with care. Who acts: star, burdens, Patient. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 22

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Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the fare; Patient ever, murmuring never, while her cheeks were creased with care.

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**Who acts:** star, burdens, Patient · **What happens:** dress, bear, spread, not murmur, crease · **To what, where:** skins, burdens, fare, cheeks

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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, burdens, Patient), 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:pg8122:17:22
# text = Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the fare; Patient ever, murmuring never, while her cheeks were creased with care.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Patient	Patient	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	creased	crease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | star | the skins of beaver |  |  | still |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | star *not said here* | the burdens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 3 | **spread** | present | the burdens *not said here* | the fare |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fare=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | Patient |  |  |  | ever |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crease** | past · passive |  | star's cheeks |  |  |  | with care | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with care=Instrument |

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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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