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title: [40] His bow unstrung and forgotten hung With his beaver hood and hi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [40] His bow unstrung and forgotten hung With his beaver hood and his otter quiver; He sat spell-bound by the artless grace Of her star-lit eyes and her moon-lit face. Who acts: bow, star. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., wit
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 128

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\[40\] His bow unstrung and forgotten hung With his beaver hood and his otter quiver; He sat spell-bound by the artless grace Of her star-lit eyes and her moon-lit face.

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**Who acts:** bow, star · **What happens:** unstring, forget, hang, sit, bind, lit · **To what, where:** 40, spell

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, star), 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:pg8122:7:128
# text = [40] His bow unstrung and forgotten hung With his beaver hood and his otter quiver; He sat spell-bound by the artless grace Of her star-lit eyes and her moon-lit face.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	unstrung	unstring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	With	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	artless	artless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
36	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unstring** | past | star's bow | 40 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | past | star's bow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with star's beaver hood and star's otter quiver | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | star | spell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bind** | participle | star *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the artless grace of bow's lit eyes and bow's lit face | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | star *compound* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moon *compound* | tree rules |
| 8 | **quiver** |  | star |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling 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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