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title: And again, "While the German princes who reigned at Paris, Toledo, A… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And again, "While the German princes who reigned at Paris, Toledo, Arles and Ravenna listened with reverence to the instructions of Bishops, adored the relics of martyrs, and took part eagerly in disputes touching the Nicene theology, the rulers of Wessex and Mercia were still performing savage rite
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 22

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And again, "While the German princes who reigned at Paris, Toledo, Arles and Ravenna listened with reverence to the instructions of Bishops, adored the relics of martyrs, and took part eagerly in disputes touching the Nicene theology, the rulers of Wessex and Mercia were still performing savage rites in the temples of Thor and Woden."

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**Who acts:** German princes, disputes, rulers · **What happens:** reign, listen, adore, take, touch, perform · **To what, where:** Paris, relics, part, disputes, Nicene theology, savage rites

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German princes, disputes, rulers), 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:pg8122:2:23
# text = And again, "While the German princes who reigned at Paris, Toledo, Arles and Ravenna listened with reverence to the instructions of Bishops, adored the relics of martyrs, and took part eagerly in disputes touching the Nicene theology, the rulers of Wessex and Mercia were still performing savage rites in the temples of Thor and Woden."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Arles	Arles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Ravenna	Ravenna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bishops	bishop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	adored	adore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	relics	relic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	martyrs	martyr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Nicene	Nicene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	theology	theology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Wessex	Wessex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Mercia	Mercia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	still	still	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	conj	_	_
54	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	Thor	Thor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	Woden	Woden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** *in a quote* | past | the German princes |  |  | Paris and Toledo and Ravenna |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | past | the German princes |  |  |  |  | with reverence; to the instructions of Bishops | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to instruction=Theme |
| 3 | **adore** *in a quote* | past |  | the relics of martyrs |  |  | again |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relic=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | past |  | part |  | disputes |  | eagerly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in dispute=Location |
| 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | gerund | disputes *not said here* | the Nicene theology |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme theology=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **perform** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the rulers of Wessex and Mercia | savage rites |  | the temples of Thor and Woden | still |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Theme |
| 7 | **instruct** *in a quote* |  |  | Bishops |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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