--- title: At last, when their locks were as white as snow, Beloved and honored… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: At last, when their locks were as white as snow, Beloved and honored by all the band, They silently slipped from their lodge below, And walked together, and hand in hand, O'er the Shining Path [68] to the Spirit-land; Where the hills and the meadows for aye and aye Are clad with the verdure and flow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/) / 66 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 66 At last, when their locks were as white as snow, Beloved and honored by all the band, They silently slipped from their lodge below, And walked together, and hand in hand, O'er the Shining Path \[68\] to the Spirit-land; Where the hills and the meadows for aye and aye Are clad with the verdure and flowers of May, And the unsown prairies of Paradise Yield the golden maize and the sweet wild rice. **Who acts:** locks · **What happens:** be, belov, honor, slip, walk, clad · **To what, where:** last, hand, hills 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 (locks), 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:pg8122:9:66 # text = At last, when their locks were as white as snow, Beloved and honored by all the band, They silently slipped from their lodge below, And walked together, and hand in hand, O'er the Shining Path [68] to the Spirit-land; Where the hills and the meadows for aye and aye Are clad with the verdure and flowers of May, And the unsown prairies of Paradise Yield the golden maize and the sweet wild rice. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Beloved belov VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 honored honor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 silently silently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 below below ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 O'er O'er PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Shining Shining PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Path Path PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 68 68 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 Spirit Spirit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 51 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 62 advmod _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nsubj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 conj _ _ 57 for for ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 61 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 aux:pass _ _ 62 clad clad VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 63 with with ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 verdure verdure NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 67 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 conj _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 71 And and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 73 unsown unsown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 prairies prairie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obl _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 76 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 compound _ _ 77 Yield Yield PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 nmod _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 80 det _ _ 79 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 80 amod _ _ 80 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 appos _ _ 81 and and CCONJ CC _ 85 cc _ _ 82 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 83 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 85 amod _ _ 84 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 85 amod _ _ 85 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 86 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | blossoms's locks | | | last | | as snow; white *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **belov** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **honor** | participle | | | | | | by all band | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **slip** | past | locks *= lock* | | | | | from blossoms's lodge; silently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from lodge=Co-Patient | | 5 | **walk** | past | locks *= lock* *not said here* | hand in hand | | | | to the Spirit land *result*; together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result | | 6 | **clad** | present · passive | | the hills and the meadows for aye and aye | | | | with the verdure and flowers of May; the unsown prairies of Paradise Yield and the sweet wild rice *obl* | tree rules | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/67/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)