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title: Man is the rugged and wrinkled oak, And woman the trusting and tende… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Man is the rugged and wrinkled oak, And woman the trusting and tender vine-- That clasps and climbs till its arms entwine The brawny arms of the sturdy stoke. Who acts: Man, woman, That, arms. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 58

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Man is the rugged and wrinkled oak, And woman the trusting and tender vine-- That clasps and climbs till its arms entwine The brawny arms of the sturdy stoke.

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**Who acts:** Man, woman, That, arms, brawny arms · **What happens:** rug, wrinkle, be, trust, clasp, climb · **To what, where:** rugged oak, brawny arms

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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 (Man, woman, That, arms), 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:pg8122:9:58
# text = Man is the rugged and wrinkled oak, And woman the trusting and tender vine-- That clasps and climbs till its arms entwine The brawny arms of the sturdy stoke.
1	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	rugged	rug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
18	clasps	clasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	entwine	entwine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sturdy	sturdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	stoke	stoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Man | the rugged oak and tender vine |  |  |  | woman *appos*; tender vine *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **trust** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **clasp** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **climb** | present | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **entwine** | present | vine's arms | the brawny arms |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 8 | **stoke** | infinitive | the brawny arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the sturdy | 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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