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title: Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gal… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gales, Iron oaks that nourished bruin while the Vikings roamed the main, Crashing fall in broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain. Who acts: Firs, Mayflower, Iron oaks, Vikings. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lenn
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 15

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Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gales, Iron oaks that nourished bruin while the Vikings roamed the main, Crashing fall in broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain.

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**Who acts:** Firs, Mayflower, Iron oaks, Vikings · **What happens:** fringe, ere, brave, nourish, roam, crash · **To what, where:** mossy meadows, gales, bruin, main Crashing fall, broken ruin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Firs, Mayflower, Iron oaks, Vikings), 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:pg8122:4:15
# text = Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gales, Iron oaks that nourished bruin while the Vikings roamed the main, Crashing fall in broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain.
1	Firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mayflower	Mayflower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	braved	brave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gales	gale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	bruin	bruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	marts	mart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fringe** | past | Firs | the mossy meadows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ere** | past | Firs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **brave** | past | the Mayflower | the gales and Iron oaks |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gale=Theme |
| 4 | **nourish** | participle | Iron oaks | bruin |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruin=Patient |
| 5 | **roam** | past | the Vikings | the main Crashing fall |  | broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Trajectory |
| 6 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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