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title: The sweeter the moments the swifter they fly; Love takes no account… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweeter the moments the swifter they fly; Love takes no account of the fleeting hours; He walks in a dream mid the blooming of flowers, And never awakes till the blossoms die. Who acts: lilies, Love, blossoms. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 133

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The sweeter the moments the swifter they fly; Love takes no account of the fleeting hours; He walks in a dream mid the blooming of flowers, And never awakes till the blossoms die.

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**Who acts:** lilies, Love, blossoms · **What happens:** fly, take, walk, not awake, die, account · **To what, where:** swifter, account, mid, dream, sweeter moments, fleeting hours

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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 (lilies, Love, blossoms), 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:pg8122:7:133
# text = The sweeter the moments the swifter they fly; Love takes no account of the fleeting hours; He walks in a dream mid the blooming of flowers, And never awakes till the blossoms die.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swifter	swifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	20	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blooming	blooming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	awakes	awake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **fly** | present | lilies *= lily* | the swifter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swifter=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | Love | no account of the fleeting hours |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | present | love | mid |  | a dream |  | the blooming of flowers *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **awake** | present | Love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | present | the blossoms |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **account** |  |  | the fleeting hours |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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