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title: In red swan-down he made it for me; In red swan-down he made it for… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In red swan-down he made it for me; In red swan-down he made it for me; He of the water--he of the mysterious face-- Gave it to me; Sacred Father--Grandfather! Who acts: nápè. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 102

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In red swan-down he made it for me; In red swan-down he made it for me; He of the water--he of the mysterious face-- Gave it to me; Sacred Father--Grandfather!

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**Who acts:** nápè · **What happens:** make, give · **To what, where:** down, red swan down, me

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nápè), 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:pg8122:11:102
# text = In red swan-down he made it for me; In red swan-down he made it for me; He of the water--he of the mysterious face-- Gave it to me; Sacred Father--Grandfather!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	In	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | nápè | down |  | red swan down |  | for me; Sacred Father *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | nápè | down |  | red swan down |  | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | past | nápè | down | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient |

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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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