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title: Wild rosebuds peep from their flowing hair, And a rose half-blown on… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild rosebuds peep from their flowing hair, And a rose half-blown on the budding breast; And bright with the quills of the porcupine The moccasined feet of the maidens shine. Who acts: Wild rosebuds, moccasined feet. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 7

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Wild rosebuds peep from their flowing hair, And a rose half-blown on the budding breast; And bright with the quills of the porcupine The moccasined feet of the maidens shine.

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**Who acts:** Wild rosebuds, moccasined feet · **What happens:** peep, flow, blow, shine · **To what, where:** rose, budding breast, porcupine

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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 (Wild rosebuds, moccasined feet), 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:pg8122:8:7
# text = Wild rosebuds peep from their flowing hair, And a rose half-blown on the budding breast; And bright with the quills of the porcupine The moccasined feet of the maidens shine.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rosebuds	rosebud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	peep	peep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	budding	budding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	quills	quill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	moccasined	moccasined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **peep** | present | Wild rosebuds |  |  |  |  | from rosebuds's flowing hair | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hair=Theme |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | participle · passive |  | a rose |  | the budding breast |  | half *compound* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **shine** | present | the moccasined feet of the maidens | the porcupine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent porcupine=Theme |

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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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