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title: In his hand were buds and blossoms, On his brow a blooming garland. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In his hand were buds and blossoms, On his brow a blooming garland. Who acts: buds. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 83

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In his hand were buds and blossoms, On his brow a blooming garland.

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**Who acts:** buds · **What happens:** be, bloom · **To what, where:** hand

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buds), 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:pg8122:18:83
# text = In his hand were buds and blossoms, On his brow a blooming garland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | buds and blossoms and Came's brow |  |  | Came's hand |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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