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title: There ever ripe in the groves and prairies Hang the purple plums and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: There ever ripe in the groves and prairies Hang the purple plums and the luscious berries. Who acts: groves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 67

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There ever ripe in the groves and prairies Hang the purple plums and the luscious berries.

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**Who acts:** groves · **What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** purple plums

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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 (groves), 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:pg8122:9:67
# text = There ever ripe in the groves and prairies Hang the purple plums and the luscious berries.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	Hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | the groves and prairies | the purple plums and the luscious berries |  | there |  | ripe *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient |

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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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