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title: Aye, love is tested by stress and trial Since the finger of time on… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Aye, love is tested by stress and trial Since the finger of time on the endless dial Began its rounds, and the orbs to move In the boundless vast, and the sunbeams clove The chaos; but only by fate's denial Are fathomed the fathomless depths of love. Who acts: stress, orbs, sunbeams, fate. A sentenc
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 57

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Aye, love is tested by stress and trial Since the finger of time on the endless dial Began its rounds, and the orbs to move In the boundless vast, and the sunbeams clove The chaos; but only by fate's denial Are fathomed the fathomless depths of love.

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**Who acts:** stress, orbs, sunbeams, fate · **What happens:** test, move, clove, fathom, deny · **To what, where:** love, endless dial, boundless vast, chaos, denial

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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 (stress, orbs, sunbeams, fate), 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:pg8122:9:57
# text = Aye, love is tested by stress and trial Since the finger of time on the endless dial Began its rounds, and the orbs to move In the boundless vast, and the sunbeams clove The chaos; but only by fate's denial Are fathomed the fathomless depths of love.
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dial	dial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	Began	Began	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	rounds	round	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	orbs	orb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
28	In	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	clove	clove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	chaos	chaos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	denial	denial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	fathomed	fathom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	fathomless	fathomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **test** | present · passive | stress and trial | love |  | the endless dial and love's rounds | since the finger of time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | the orbs |  |  | the boundless vast |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in vast=Trajectory |
| 3 | **clove** | present | the sunbeams | the chaos |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fathom** | present · passive |  | fate's denial |  |  |  | the fathomless depths of love *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **deny** |  | fate |  |  |  |  |  | nom denial «communication transitive»: 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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