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title: In his palm the lakelet lingers, in his hair the brooklets hide, Gra… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In his palm the lakelet lingers, in his hair the brooklets hide, Grasped within his thousand fingers lies a continent fair and wide,-- Yea, a mighty empire swarming with its millions like the bees, Delving, drudging, striving, storming, all their lives, for golden ease. Who acts: lakelet, brooklets,
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 17

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In his palm the lakelet lingers, in his hair the brooklets hide, Grasped within his thousand fingers lies a continent fair and wide,-- Yea, a mighty empire swarming with its millions like the bees, Delving, drudging, striving, storming, all their lives, for golden ease.

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**Who acts:** lakelet, brooklets, mighty empire · **What happens:** linger, hide, grasp, lie, swarm, delve · **To what, where:** palm, hair, continent, storming

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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 (lakelet, brooklets, mighty empire), 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:pg8122:4:17
# text = In his palm the lakelet lingers, in his hair the brooklets hide, Grasped within his thousand fingers lies a continent fair and wide,-- Yea, a mighty empire swarming with its millions like the bees, Delving, drudging, striving, storming, all their lives, for golden ease.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lakelet	lakelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lingers	linger	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brooklets	brooklet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Grasped	grasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	nsubj	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
33	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Delving	delve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	drudging	drudge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	storming	storming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | present | the lakelet |  |  | River's palm |  | a mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palm=Location |
| 2 | **hide** | present | the brooklets |  |  | River's hair |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hair=Location |
| 3 | **grasp** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | within River's thousand fingers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  | a continent |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location continent=Theme |
| 5 | **swarm** | gerund | a mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lakelet's millions like the bees | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with million=Theme |
| 6 | **delve** | gerund | a mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **drudge** | gerund | a mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **strive** | gerund | a mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease *not said here* | storming |  |  |  |  | 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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