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title: The Virgins Feast is a Sacred thing: How durst she enter the Virgins… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Virgins Feast is a Sacred thing: How durst she enter the Virgins ring? Who acts: Virgins Feast, Wiwâstè. 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 29

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The Virgins Feast is a Sacred thing: How durst she enter the Virgins ring?

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**Who acts:** Virgins Feast, Wiwâstè · **What happens:** be, enter · **To what, where:** Sacred thing, Virgins 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 (Virgins Feast, Wiwâstè), 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:pg8122:8:29
# text = The Virgins Feast is a Sacred thing: How durst she enter the Virgins ring?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Virgins	Virgins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Feast	Feast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	durst	durst	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Virgins Feast | a Sacred thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | Wiwâstè | the Virgins 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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