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title: Like the summer sun peeping, at morn, o'er the hills was the face of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the summer sun peeping, at morn, o'er the hills was the face of Winona; And here she grew up like a queen --a romping and lily-lipped laughter, And danced on the undulant green, and played in the frolicsome waters, Where the foaming tide tumbles and twirls o'er the murmuring rocks in the rapids
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 90

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Like the summer sun peeping, at morn, o'er the hills was the face of Winona; And here she grew up like a queen --a romping and lily-lipped laughter, And danced on the undulant green, and played in the frolicsome waters, Where the foaming tide tumbles and twirls o'er the murmuring rocks in the rapids; And whiter than foam were the pearls that gleamed in the midst of her laughter.

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**Who acts:** peeping, WINONA, foaming tide, whiter pearls · **What happens:** peep, be, grow up, romp, lip, dance · **To what, where:** morn, face, undulant green, frolicsome waters, whiter pearls, midst

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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 (peeping, WINONA, foaming tide, whiter pearls), 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:pg8122:9:90
# text = Like the summer sun peeping, at morn, o'er the hills was the face of Winona; And here she grew up like a queen --a romping and lily-lipped laughter, And danced on the undulant green, and played in the frolicsome waters, Where the foaming tide tumbles and twirls o'er the murmuring rocks in the rapids; And whiter than foam were the pearls that gleamed in the midst of her laughter.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	romping	romp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	appos	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	lipped	lip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	undulant	undulant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	frolicsome	frolicsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	tumbles	tumble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	twirls	twirl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	_
57	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	71	amod	_	_
67	than	than	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	_
69	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	cop	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
72	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	73	nsubj	_	_
73	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	acl:relcl	_	_
74	in	in	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
77	of	of	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	79	nmod:poss	_	_
79	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | gerund |  | morn |  |  |  | like the summer sun; o'er the hills | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent morn=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | peeping | the face |  |  |  | of Winona | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow up** | past | WINONA |  |  | here |  | like a queen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **romp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | lipped laughter *conj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | lily *compound* | tree rules |
| 6 | **dance** | past | WINONA *not said here* |  |  | the undulant green |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on green=Location |
| 7 | **play** | past | WINONA *not said here* |  |  | the frolicsome waters |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tumble** | present | the foaming tide |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **twirl** | present | the foaming tide *not said here* |  |  |  |  | o'er the murmuring rocks in the rapids | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is a** | past |  | the whiter pearls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **gleam** | past | the whiter pearls |  |  | the midst of WINONA's laughter |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |

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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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