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title: From his teepee the tall chieftain comes, and Duluth brings a prize… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From his teepee the tall chieftain comes, and Duluth brings a prize for the runners-- A keen hunting-knife from the Seine, horn-handled and mounted with silver. Who acts: tall chieftain, Duluth. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, wit
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 23

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From his teepee the tall chieftain comes, and Duluth brings a prize for the runners-- A keen hunting-knife from the Seine, horn-handled and mounted with silver.

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**Who acts:** tall chieftain, Duluth · **What happens:** come, bring, handle, mount · **To what, where:** teepee, prize

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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 (tall chieftain, Duluth), 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:pg8122:11:23
# text = From his teepee the tall chieftain comes, and Duluth brings a prize for the runners-- A keen hunting-knife from the Seine, horn-handled and mounted with silver.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Duluth	Duluth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Seine	seine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the tall chieftain |  |  | Hark's teepee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from teepee=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Duluth | a prize |  |  |  | for the runners and a keen hunting knife from the Seine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 3 | **handle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | horn *compound* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with silver | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument |

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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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