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title: Has she gone to the spirits and can it be That her beautiful face is… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Has she gone to the spirits and can it be That her beautiful face is the Virgin Star Peeping out from the door of her lodge afar, Or upward sailing the silver sea. Who acts: Wiwâstè, heroine, beautiful face, Virgin Star. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 115

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Has she gone to the spirits and can it be That her beautiful face is the Virgin Star Peeping out from the door of her lodge afar, Or upward sailing the silver sea.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, heroine, beautiful face, Virgin Star · **What happens:** go, be, peep out, sail · **To what, where:** spirits, beautiful face, Virgin Star, silver sea

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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 (Wiwâstè, heroine, beautiful face, Virgin Star), 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:pg8122:8:115
# text = Has she gone to the spirits and can it be That her beautiful face is the Virgin Star Peeping out from the door of her lodge afar, Or upward sailing the silver sea.
1	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	Peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | Wiwâstè |  |  | the spirits |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spirit=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | can | heroine | Wiwâstè's beautiful face |  |  |  | That *nsubj*; Wiwâstè *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Wiwâstè's beautiful face | the Virgin Star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **peep out** | gerund | the Virgin Star *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the door of Wiwâstè's lodge afar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from door=Theme |
| 5 | **sail** | gerund | Wiwâstè's beautiful face *not said here* | the silver sea |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory |

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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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