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title: His famished and woe-begone face, and his tones touched the hearts o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: His famished and woe-begone face, and his tones touched the hearts of the hunters; They fed the poor father apace, and they led him away to Ka-thá-ga. Who acts: famished begone face, tones, Unktómee. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 15

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His famished and woe-begone face, and his tones touched the hearts of the hunters; They fed the poor father apace, and they led him away to Ka-thá-ga.

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**Who acts:** famished begone face, tones, Unktómee · **What happens:** famish, touch, feed, lead away, intonate · **To what, where:** hearts, poor father apace, Unktómee, Ka thá

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (famished begone face, tones, Unktómee), 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:pg8122:10:15
# text = His famished and woe-begone face, and his tones touched the hearts of the hunters; They fed the poor father apace, and they led him away to Ka-thá-ga.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
2	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	begone	begone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	apace	apace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	thá	thá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	ga	ga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **famish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | past | Unktómee's famished begone face | the hearts of the hunters |  |  |  | Unktómee's tones *nsubj* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | past | tones *= tone* | the poor father apace |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apace=Recipient |
| 4 | **lead away** | past | tones *= tone* | Unktómee |  | Ka thá |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thá=Destination |
| 5 | **intonate** |  | Unktómee |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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