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title: "* * * * Bees of Trebizond-- Which from the sunniest flowers that gl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: "* * * * Bees of Trebizond-- Which from the sunniest flowers that glad With their pure smile the gardens round, Draw venom forth that drives men mad." Who acts: venom, flowers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 163

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"\* \* \* \* Bees of Trebizond-- Which from the sunniest flowers that glad With their pure smile the gardens round, Draw venom forth that drives men mad."

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**Who acts:** venom, flowers · **What happens:** draw, drive, smile · **To what, where:** venom, men, Bees

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (venom, flowers), 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:pg8122:20:163
# text = "* * * * Bees of Trebizond-- Which from the sunniest flowers that glad With their pure smile the gardens round, Draw venom forth that drives men mad."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
3	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
4	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
5	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Trebizond	Trebizond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sunniest	sunny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
17	With	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | venom |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | present | venom | men |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **smile** *in a quote* |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=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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