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title: The maples screen the ferns, and lean the leafy lindens o'er the dee… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The maples screen the ferns, and lean the leafy lindens o'er the deep; The sapphire, set in emerald green, lies like an Orient gem asleep. Who acts: maples screen, sapphire. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 81

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The maples screen the ferns, and lean the leafy lindens o'er the deep; The sapphire, set in emerald green, lies like an Orient gem asleep.

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**Who acts:** maples screen, sapphire · **What happens:** lean, set, lie · **To what, where:** leafy lindens, sapphire, emerald

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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 screen, sapphire), 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:pg8122:19:81
# text = The maples screen the ferns, and lean the leafy lindens o'er the deep; The sapphire, set in emerald green, lies like an Orient gem asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lindens	linden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sapphire	sapphire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | infinitive | the maples screen and the ferns | the leafy lindens |  |  |  | o'er the deep | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location linden=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | the sapphire *not said here* |  | emerald |  | green *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in emerald=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the sapphire |  |  |  |  | like a Orient gem | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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