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title: Alone by the billowy, boundless prairies, She plucked the cones of t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Alone by the billowy, boundless prairies, She plucked the cones of the scarlet berries; In feathering copse and the grassy field She found the bulbs of the young Tipsânna, [43] And the sweet medó [64] that the meadows yield. Who acts: star, meadows. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanfor
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 19

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Alone by the billowy, boundless prairies, She plucked the cones of the scarlet berries; In feathering copse and the grassy field She found the bulbs of the young Tipsânna, \[43\] And the sweet medó \[64\] that the meadows yield.

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**Who acts:** star, meadows · **What happens:** pluck, find, yield · **To what, where:** cones, bulbs, feathering copse

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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 (star, meadows), 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:pg8122:9:19
# text = Alone by the billowy, boundless prairies, She plucked the cones of the scarlet berries; In feathering copse and the grassy field She found the bulbs of the young Tipsânna, [43] And the sweet medó [64] that the meadows yield.
1	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	billowy	billowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	feathering	feathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	copse	copse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Tipsânna	Tipsânna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
37	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	medó	medó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
41	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	64	64	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | past | star | the cones of the scarlet berries |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | star | the bulbs of the young Tipsânna and the sweet medó |  | feathering copse and the grassy field |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulb=Topic |
| 3 | **yield** | present | the meadows |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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