--- title: When the wrinkled mask of the years they wore, And the raven hair of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: When the wrinkled mask of the years they wore, And the raven hair of their youth was gray, Their love grew deeper, and more and more; For he was a lover for aye and aye, And ever her beautiful, brave Chaskè. Who acts: wrinkled mask, raven hair, love, stain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrinkled mask, raven hair, love, stain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:9:64 # text = When the wrinkled mask of the years they wore, And the raven hair of their youth was gray, Their love grew deeper, and more and more; For he was a lover for aye and aye, And ever her beautiful, brave Chaskè. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 mask mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 raven raven ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 21 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 For for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 And and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Chaskè Chaskè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrinkle** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **wear** | past | the wrinkled mask of the years | | | | | spirits *= spirit* *nsubj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the raven hair of spirits's youth | | | | | gray *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | past | spirits's love | | | | | deep *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | stain | | | | | for a lover; for aye and aye | tree rules | | 6 | **love** | | spirits *= spirit* | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/65/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)