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title: To the face of our Grandfather stretch out your hand; Holding a quad… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To the face of our Grandfather stretch out your hand; Holding a quadruped, stretch out your hand! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 105

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To the face of our Grandfather stretch out your hand; Holding a quadruped, stretch out your hand!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stretch out, hold · **To what, where:** hand, quadruped

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:11:105
# text = To the face of our Grandfather stretch out your hand; Holding a quadruped, stretch out your hand!
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quadruped	quadruped	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  | to the face of our Grandfather *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to face=Result |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | you *not said here* | a quadruped |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quadruped=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=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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