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title: Beloved was she by her princely father, Beloved was she by the young… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Beloved was she by her princely father, Beloved was she by the young and old, By merry maidens and many a mother, And many a warrior bronzed and bold. Who acts: Beloved, princely father. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 25

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Beloved was she by her princely father, Beloved was she by the young and old, By merry maidens and many a mother, And many a warrior bronzed and bold.

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**Who acts:** Beloved, princely father · **What happens:** be, bronze · **To what, where:** many warrior

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. \[2\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beloved, princely father), 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:pg8122:6:25
# text = Beloved was she by her princely father, Beloved was she by the young and old, By merry maidens and many a mother, And many a warrior bronzed and bold.
1	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	By	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
30	bronzed	bronze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Beloved |  |  |  |  | by Beloved's princely father | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Beloved's princely father |  |  |  |  | a many warrior *obl*; Beloved *nsubj*; merry maidens and a many mother *parataxis*; young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Beloved's princely father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bronze** | participle |  | a many warrior *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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