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title: [67] The dimpled babes are the flowers divine That the blessing of G… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [67] The dimpled babes are the flowers divine That the blessing of God on the vine and oak With their cooing and blossoming lips invoke. Who acts: 67 flowers, blessing. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 59

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\[67\] The dimpled babes are the flowers divine That the blessing of God on the vine and oak With their cooing and blossoming lips invoke.

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**Who acts:** 67 flowers, blessing · **What happens:** dimple, be, divine, blossom, invoke, bless · **To what, where:** 67 flowers, That, God, vine

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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 (67 flowers, blessing), 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:pg8122:9:59
# text = [67] The dimpled babes are the flowers divine That the blessing of God on the vine and oak With their cooing and blossoming lips invoke.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dimpled	dimple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	divine	divine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	With	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cooing	cooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	invoke	invoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dimple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the 67 flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divine** | present | the 67 flowers | That |  |  |  | the blessing of God *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blossom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **invoke** | infinitive | the blessing of God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bless** |  |  | God |  | the vine with oak's cooing and blossoming lips and oak |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |

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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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