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title: Lo the rounded ankles and raven hair That floats at will on the want… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo the rounded ankles and raven hair That floats at will on the wanton wind, And the round brown arms to the breezes bare, And breasts like the mounds where the waters meet, [4] And feet as fleet as the red deer's feet, And faces that glow like the full, round moon When she laughs in the luminous sk
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 5

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Lo the rounded ankles and raven hair That floats at will on the wanton wind, And the round brown arms to the breezes bare, And breasts like the mounds where the waters meet, \[4\] And feet as fleet as the red deer's feet, And faces that glow like the full, round moon When she laughs in the luminous skies of June.

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**Who acts:** rounded ankles, waters, faces, beauty · **What happens:** round, float, breast, meet, glow, laugh · **To what, where:** faces, wanton wind

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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 (rounded ankles, waters, faces, beauty), 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:pg8122:6:5
# text = Lo the rounded ankles and raven hair That floats at will on the wanton wind, And the round brown arms to the breezes bare, And breasts like the mounds where the waters meet, [4] And feet as fleet as the red deer's feet, And faces that glow like the full, round moon When she laughs in the luminous skies of June.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	raven	raven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wanton	wanton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	breasts	breast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
57	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
59	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
61	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	63	mark	_	_
62	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **float** | present | the rounded ankles and raven hair | faces |  | the wanton wind |  | That *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory |
| 3 | **breast** | present | the rounded ankles and raven hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the mounds; as fleet; as the red deer's feet; 4 *appos* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | present | the waters |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **glow** | present | faces |  |  |  |  | like the full round moon | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **laugh** | present | beauty |  |  |  |  | in the luminous skies of June | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sky=Theme |

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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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