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title: The Sí-yo [59] clucks on the emerald prairies To her infant brood. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sí-yo [59] clucks on the emerald prairies To her infant brood. Who acts: Sí yo. 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 104

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The Sí-yo \[59\] clucks on the emerald prairies To her infant brood.

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**Who acts:** Sí yo · **What happens:** cluck · **To what, where:** emerald prairies

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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 (Sí yo), 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:pg8122:8:104
# text = The Sí-yo [59] clucks on the emerald prairies To her infant brood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Sí	Sí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	59	59	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	clucks	cluck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	To	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cluck** | present | the Sí yo |  |  | the emerald prairies to yo's infant brood |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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