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title: He promised to come with the robins in May, With the bridal gifts fo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He promised to come with the robins in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; But the fair May mornings have slipped away, And where is the lover--the brave Chaskè? Who acts: mound, fair May mornings. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 118

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He promised to come with the robins in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; But the fair May mornings have slipped away, And where is the lover--the brave Chaskè?

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**Who acts:** mound, fair May mornings · **What happens:** promise, come, slip away, be · **To what, where:** lover

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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 (mound, fair May mornings), 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:pg8122:8:118
# text = He promised to come with the robins in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; But the fair May mornings have slipped away, And where is the lover--the brave Chaskè?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | mound |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the robins in May and the bridal gifts for the bridal day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slip away** | present · perfect | the fair May mornings |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the fair May mornings *not said here* | the lover |  |  |  | the brave Chaskè *appos* | tree rules |

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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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