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title: While the loud "Ho-Ho's" of the tawny throng Their flying feet and t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: While the loud "Ho-Ho's" of the tawny throng Their flying feet and their song inspire. Who acts: flying feet, 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 17

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While the loud "Ho-Ho's" of the tawny throng Their flying feet and their song inspire.

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**Who acts:** flying feet, maidens · **What happens:** fly, inspire, sing · **To what, where:** Ho Ho

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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 (flying feet, 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:pg8122:8:17
# text = While the loud "Ho-Ho's" of the tawny throng Their flying feet and their song inspire.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	throng	throng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	inspire	inspire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inspire** | present | maidens's flying feet and maidens's song | Ho Ho *not said here* |  |  |  | of the tawny throng | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ho=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sing** |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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