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title: The speckled cones of the scarlet berries [58] Lie red and ripe in t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The speckled cones of the scarlet berries [58] Lie red and ripe in the prairie grass. Who acts: speckled cones. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 103

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The speckled cones of the scarlet berries \[58\] Lie red and ripe in the prairie grass.

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**Who acts:** speckled cones · **What happens:** lie

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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 (speckled cones), 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:pg8122:8:103
# text = The speckled cones of the scarlet berries [58] Lie red and ripe in the prairie grass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	speckled	speckled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	58	58	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | infinitive | the speckled cones of the scarlet berries |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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