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title: Star-beaconed and lit like an avenue, In the shining stern of her go… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Star-beaconed and lit like an avenue, In the shining stern of her gold canoe? Who acts: Star. 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 116

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Star-beaconed and lit like an avenue, In the shining stern of her gold canoe?

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**Who acts:** Star · **What happens:** beacon, lit, shine · **To what, where:** shining stern

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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 (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:pg8122:8:116
# text = Star-beaconed and lit like an avenue, In the shining stern of her gold canoe?
1	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	beaconed	beacon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beacon** | participle | Star |  |  | the shining stern of Wiwâstè's gold canoe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lit** | participle | Star *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a avenue | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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