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title: Till some spirit of the olden, mystic, weird, romantic days Shall em… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Till some spirit of the olden, mystic, weird, romantic days Shall emerge and pour her golden tales and legends through my lays. Who acts: romantic days, Seal. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 23

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Till some spirit of the olden, mystic, weird, romantic days Shall emerge and pour her golden tales and legends through my lays.

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**Who acts:** romantic days, Seal · **What happens:** emerge, pour, lay, tell · **To what, where:** golden tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (romantic days, Seal), 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:pg8122:4:23
# text = Till some spirit of the olden, mystic, weird, romantic days Shall emerge and pour her golden tales and legends through my lays.
1	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | shall | romantic days |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pour** | infinitive | romantic days *not said here* | Seal's golden tales and legends |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present | romantic days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Seal |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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