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title: [Footnote 48: The "Sacred Ring" around the feast of the Virgins is f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 48: The "Sacred Ring" around the feast of the Virgins is formed by armed warriors sitting, and none but a virgin must enter this ring. Who acts: armed warriors, none. 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 169

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\[Footnote 48: The "Sacred Ring" around the feast of the Virgins is formed by armed warriors sitting, and none but a virgin must enter this ring.

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**Who acts:** armed warriors, none · **What happens:** form, sit, enter · **To what, where:** Footnote, ring

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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 (armed warriors, none), 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:pg8122:20:169
# text = [Footnote 48: The "Sacred Ring" around the feast of the Virgins is formed by armed warriors sitting, and none but a virgin must enter this ring.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present · passive | armed warriors | Footnote around the feast of the Virgins |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | armed warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | must | none  a virgin | this ring |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |

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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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