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title: Aside with the mothers sat Hârpstinà: She durst not enter the virgin… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Aside with the mothers sat Hârpstinà: She durst not enter the virgins' ring. Who acts: mothers, Hârpstinà. 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 15

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Aside with the mothers sat Hârpstinà: She durst not enter the virgins' ring.

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**Who acts:** mothers, Hârpstinà · **What happens:** sit, not enter · **To what, where:** Hârpstinà, 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 (mothers, Hârpstinà), 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:pg8122:8:15
# text = Aside with the mothers sat Hârpstinà: She durst not enter the virgins' ring.
1	Aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	durst	durst	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	virgins	virgin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the mothers | Hârpstinà |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hârpstinà=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **enter** | infinitive | Hârpstinà | the virgins's ring |  |  |  | durst *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |

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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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