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title: Anon, to her loitering mate she cries "Flip, O Will!--trip, O Will!-… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Anon, to her loitering mate she cries "Flip, O Will!--trip, O Will!--skip, O Will!" Who acts: Anon. 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 109

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Anon, to her loitering mate she cries "Flip, O Will!--trip, O Will!--skip, O Will!"

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**Who acts:** Anon · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** Flip, loitering mate

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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 (Anon), 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:pg8122:8:109
# text = Anon, to her loitering mate she cries "Flip, O Will!--trip, O Will!--skip, O Will!"
1	Anon	Anon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	loitering	loitering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Flip	flip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	skip	skip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Anon | Flip and O and trip and O | Anon's loitering mate |  |  | Anon *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flip=Topic to mate=Recipient |

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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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