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title: For some for Tamdóka contend, and some for the fair, bearded strange… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For some for Tamdóka contend, and some for the fair, bearded stranger, And the betting runs high to the end, with the skins of the bison and beaver. Who acts: some, betting. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 50

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For some for Tamdóka contend, and some for the fair, bearded stranger, And the betting runs high to the end, with the skins of the bison and beaver.

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**Who acts:** some, betting · **What happens:** contend, run

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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 (some, betting), 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:pg8122:11:50
# text = For some for Tamdóka contend, and some for the fair, bearded stranger, And the betting runs high to the end, with the skins of the bison and beaver.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	contend	contend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	betting	betting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | present | some for Tamdóka |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | present | the betting |  |  |  | to the end | with the skins of the bison and beaver; high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result |

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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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