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title: So gaily the Virgins are decked and dressed, And none but a virgin m… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: So gaily the Virgins are decked and dressed, And none but a virgin may enter there; And clad is each in a scarlet vest, And a fawn skin frock to the brown calves bare. Who acts: none. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its depen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 6

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So gaily the Virgins are decked and dressed, And none but a virgin may enter there; And clad is each in a scarlet vest, And a fawn skin frock to the brown calves bare.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** deck, dress, enter, clad · **To what, where:** gaily Virgins, each, scarlet vest

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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 (none), 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:pg8122:8:6
# text = So gaily the Virgins are decked and dressed, And none but a virgin may enter there; And clad is each in a scarlet vest, And a fawn skin frock to the brown calves bare.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	vest	vest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **deck** | present · passive |  | the gaily Virgins |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | may | none  a virgin |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **clad** | past |  | each |  | a scarlet vest |  | a skin frock to the brown calves *obl* | 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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