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title: Proud of their rites are the Virgins fair, For none but a Virgin may… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Proud of their rites are the Virgins fair, For none but a Virgin may enter there. ' Who acts: Virgins, Virgin. 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 11

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Proud of their rites are the Virgins fair, For none but a Virgin may enter there. '

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**Who acts:** Virgins, Virgin · **What happens:** be, enter

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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 (Virgins, Virgin), 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:pg8122:8:11
# text = Proud of their rites are the Virgins fair, For none but a Virgin may enter there. '
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	conj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Virgins |  |  |  |  | none *conj*; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | may | a Virgin |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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