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title: In the maples cooed the pigeons-- Cooed and wooed like silly lovers. " — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the maples cooed the pigeons-- Cooed and wooed like silly lovers. " Who acts: maples. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 2

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In the maples cooed the pigeons-- Cooed and wooed like silly lovers. "

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**Who acts:** maples · **What happens:** coo, woo · **To what, where:** pigeons

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maples), 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:pg8122:19:2
# text = In the maples cooed the pigeons-- Cooed and wooed like silly lovers. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cooed	coo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Cooed	coo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wooed	woo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coo** | past | the maples | the pigeons |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme |
| 2 | **coo** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **woo** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like silly lovers | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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