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title: Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the law… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the lawn, In the gloaming and the glimmer walk the silent doe and fawn; And on Spirit-Isle or near it, under midnight's misty moon, Oft is seen the mother's spirit, oft is heard her mournful tune. Who acts: moonbeams, gloaming. A sentence 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 51

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Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the lawn, In the gloaming and the glimmer walk the silent doe and fawn; And on Spirit-Isle or near it, under midnight's misty moon, Oft is seen the mother's spirit, oft is heard her mournful tune.

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**Who acts:** moonbeams, gloaming · **What happens:** shimmer, walk, see, hear · **To what, where:** maples, silent doe, Oft, Spirit Isle

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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 (moonbeams, gloaming), 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:pg8122:17:51
# text = Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the lawn, In the gloaming and the glimmer walk the silent doe and fawn; And on Spirit-Isle or near it, under midnight's misty moon, Oft is seen the mother's spirit, oft is heard her mournful tune.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shimmer	shimmer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gloaming	gloaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	Oft	Oft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shimmer** | present | moonbeams |  |  | the maples on the lawn | still | sometimes *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through maple=Location |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | the gloaming and the glimmer | the silent doe and fawn |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | present · passive |  | Oft |  |  |  | the mother's spirit *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | present · passive |  | Spirit Isle near gloaming |  |  |  | Oft's mournful tune *obj* | tree rules |

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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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