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title: The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in gar|… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in gar|ments green, indistinct in the twilight. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 49

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The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in gar\|ments green, indistinct in the twilight.

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**What happens:** beard · **To what, where:** murmuring pines

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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: 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:pg8122:2:50
# text = The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in gar|ments green, indistinct in the twilight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hemlocks	hemlock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Bearded	beard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gar	gar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	|	|	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ments	ment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beard** | participle |  | the murmuring pines and the hemlocks and gar and ments *not said here* |  |  |  | with moss | vn pit-10.7 «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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