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title: The silken threads of the happy years They wove into beautiful robes… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The silken threads of the happy years They wove into beautiful robes of love That the spirits wear in the lodge above; And time from the reel of the rolling spheres His silver threads with the raven wove; But never the stain of a mother's tears Soiled the shining web of their happy years. Who acts: 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 63

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The silken threads of the happy years They wove into beautiful robes of love That the spirits wear in the lodge above; And time from the reel of the rolling spheres His silver threads with the raven wove; But never the stain of a mother's tears Soiled the shining web of their happy years.

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**Who acts:** silken threads, spirits, time, raven, stain · **What happens:** weave, wear, sphere, soil, shine · **To what, where:** That, beautiful robes, lodge, silver threads, shining web

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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 (silken threads, spirits, time, raven), 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:pg8122:9:63
# text = The silken threads of the happy years They wove into beautiful robes of love That the spirits wear in the lodge above; And time from the reel of the rolling spheres His silver threads with the raven wove; But never the stain of a mother's tears Soiled the shining web of their happy years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	above	above	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	reel	reel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	spheres	sphere	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
41	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
50	Soiled	soil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	amod	_	_
53	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | past | the silken threads of the happy years | That |  | beautiful robes of love |  | threads *= thread* *nsubj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into robe=Product |
| 2 | **wear** | present | the spirits |  |  | the lodge |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sphere** | present | time from the reel of the rolling | Chaskè's silver threads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weave** | past | the raven |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **soil** | past | the stain of a mother's tears | the shining web of threads's happy years |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent web=Destination |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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