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title: Round and round to the merry song The maidens dance in their gay att… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Round and round to the merry song The maidens dance in their gay attire. Who acts: maidens. 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 16

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Round and round to the merry song The maidens dance in their gay attire.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** dance · **To what, where:** gay attire

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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 (maidens), 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:pg8122:8:16
# text = Round and round to the merry song The maidens dance in their gay attire.
1	Round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present | the maidens |  |  | maidens's gay attire |  | to the merry song; round *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attire=Location |

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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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