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title: The young robins chirped in their feathery beds, The loon's song shr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The young robins chirped in their feathery beds, The loon's song shrilled like a winding horn, And the green hills lifted their dewy heads To greet the god of the rising morn. Who acts: young robins, green hills, loon. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of t
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 17

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The young robins chirped in their feathery beds, The loon's song shrilled like a winding horn, And the green hills lifted their dewy heads To greet the god of the rising morn.

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**Who acts:** young robins, green hills, loon · **What happens:** chirp, shrill, wind, lift, greet, rise · **To what, where:** song, feathery beds, dewy heads, god

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young robins, green hills, loon), 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:pg8122:9:17
# text = The young robins chirped in their feathery beds, The loon's song shrilled like a winding horn, And the green hills lifted their dewy heads To greet the god of the rising morn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chirped	chirp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	shrilled	shrill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	To	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	amod	_	_
35	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **chirp** | past | the young robins | the loon's song |  | robins's feathery beds |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shrill** | participle |  | the loon's song *not said here* |  |  |  | like a winding horn | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lift** | past | the green hills | robins's dewy heads |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | the green hills *not said here* |  | the god of the rising morn |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 6 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sing** |  | the loon |  |  |  |  |  | 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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