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title: And her that enters the Sacred Ring With a blot that is known or a s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And her that enters the Sacred Ring With a blot that is known or a secret stain The warrior who knows is bound to expose, And lead her forth from the ring again. Who acts: that, warrior, secret stain. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 13

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And her that enters the Sacred Ring With a blot that is known or a secret stain The warrior who knows is bound to expose, And lead her forth from the ring again.

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**Who acts:** that, warrior, secret stain · **What happens:** enter, know, be, expose, lea · **To what, where:** Sacred Ring, blot, rose, ring

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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 (that, warrior, secret stain), 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:pg8122:8:13
# text = And her that enters the Sacred Ring With a blot that is known or a secret stain The warrior who knows is bound to expose, And lead her forth from the ring again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	With	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blot	blot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lead	lea	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **enter** | present | that |  | the Sacred Ring |  |  | with a blot; rose *nmod:poss* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  | a blot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | the warrior |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | a secret stain |  |  |  |  | the warrior *nsubj*; bound *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **expose** | to-infinitive | a secret stain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **lea** | past | that *not said here* | rose |  | the ring |  | forth *property* | 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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