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title: CONTAINING — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: CONTAINING A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Legends of the Northwest., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Legends of the Northwest., sentence 3

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CONTAINING

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**What happens:** contain

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Legends of the Northwest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:1:3
# text = CONTAINING
1	CONTAINING	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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