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title: _But_ a celestial bright|ness--a more etherial beauty. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: _But_ a celestial bright|ness--a more etherial beauty. Who acts: _. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 56

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\_But\_ a celestial bright\|ness--a more etherial beauty.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** \_ · **To what, where:** celestial

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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 (\_), 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:pg8122:2:57
# text = _But_ a celestial bright|ness--a more etherial beauty.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	|	|	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ness	ness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	etherial	etherial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **\_** | past | \_ | a celestial and bright ness and a etherial beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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