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title: In the lodge of the Stranger [a] he sat awaiting the crown of a mart… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the lodge of the Stranger [a] he sat awaiting the crown of a martyr; His sad face compassion begat in the heart of the dark eyed Winona. Who acts: Chippeway, sad compassion begat. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its depend
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 29

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In the lodge of the Stranger \[a\] he sat awaiting the crown of a martyr; His sad face compassion begat in the heart of the dark eyed Winona.

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**Who acts:** Chippeway, sad compassion begat · **What happens:** sit, await, eye, crown · **To what, where:** Stranger, crown, Winona, lodge, martyr

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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 (Chippeway, sad compassion begat), 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:pg8122:10:29
# text = In the lodge of the Stranger [a] he sat awaiting the crown of a martyr; His sad face compassion begat in the heart of the dark eyed Winona.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	martyr	martyr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	begat	begat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Chippeway | the Stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stranger=Theme |
| 2 | **await** | gerund | Chippeway *not said here* | the crown of a martyr |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eye** | past | Chippeway's sad compassion begat in the heart of the dark | Winona |  | the lodge of the Stranger |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | a martyr |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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