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title: The sun sails high in his azure realms; Beneath the arch of the bree… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun sails high in his azure realms; Beneath the arch of the breezy elms The feast is spread by the murmuring river. Who acts: sun, murmuring river. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 1

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The sun sails high in his azure realms; Beneath the arch of the breezy elms The feast is spread by the murmuring river.

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**Who acts:** sun, murmuring river · **What happens:** sail, spread · **To what, where:** azure realms, feast, arch

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, murmuring river), 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:pg8122:8:1
# text = The sun sails high in his azure realms; Beneath the arch of the breezy elms The feast is spread by the murmuring river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sails	sail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
10	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	breezy	breezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	elms	elm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | present | the sun |  |  | sun's azure realms |  | high *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | present · passive | the murmuring river | the feast |  | the arch of the breezy elms |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme beneath arch=Destination |

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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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