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title: The plum-trees, white with their bloom in May, Their sweet perfume o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The plum-trees, white with their bloom in May, Their sweet perfume on the vernal breeze Wide strew like the isles of the tropic seas, Where the paroquet chatters the livelong day. Who acts: plum trees, paroquet, trees. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 148

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The plum-trees, white with their bloom in May, Their sweet perfume on the vernal breeze Wide strew like the isles of the tropic seas, Where the paroquet chatters the livelong day.

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**Who acts:** plum trees, paroquet, trees · **What happens:** strew, chatter, bloom, perfume · **To what, where:** vernal breeze

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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 (plum trees, paroquet, trees), 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:pg8122:7:148
# text = The plum-trees, white with their bloom in May, Their sweet perfume on the vernal breeze Wide strew like the isles of the tropic seas, Where the paroquet chatters the livelong day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vernal	vernal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	Wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	strew	strew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	tropic	tropic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	paroquet	paroquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	chatters	chatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	livelong	livelong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **strew** | present | the plum trees and trees's sweet perfume on the vernal breeze |  |  |  |  | like the isles of the tropic seas; wide *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chatter** | present | the paroquet |  |  |  | day |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bloom** |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | in May | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl |
| 4 | **perfume** |  | trees *= tree* |  |  | the vernal breeze |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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