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title: A wife of tall Wazi-kuté --the mother of boastful Tamdóka-- Brought… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: A wife of tall Wazi-kuté --the mother of boastful Tamdóka-- Brought her handsomest robe from the tee, with a vaunting and loud proclamation: She would stake her last robe on her son who, she boasted, was fleet as the Cábri [80] And the tall, tawny chieftain looked on, approving the boast of the moth
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 51

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A wife of tall Wazi-kuté --the mother of boastful Tamdóka-- Brought her handsomest robe from the tee, with a vaunting and loud proclamation: She would stake her last robe on her son who, she boasted, was fleet as the Cábri \[80\] And the tall, tawny chieftain looked on, approving the boast of the mother.

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**Who acts:** wife, son, mother · **What happens:** bring, stake, boast, be, look on, approve · **To what, where:** handsomest robe, tee, last robe, tall tawny chieftain, boast

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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 (wife, son, mother), 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:pg8122:11:51
# text = A wife of tall Wazi-kuté --the mother of boastful Tamdóka-- Brought her handsomest robe from the tee, with a vaunting and loud proclamation: She would stake her last robe on her son who, she boasted, was fleet as the Cábri [80] And the tall, tawny chieftain looked on, approving the boast of the mother.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Wazi	Wazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kuté	kuté	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	Brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vaunting	vaunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	stake	stake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Cábri	Cábri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
52	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
54	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
58	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	approving	approve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | a wife of tall Wazi kuté | wife's handsomest robe |  | the tee |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme from tee=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stake** | would | wife | wife's last robe |  |  |  | on wife's son | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | wife's son |  |  |  |  | wife *nsubj* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Cábri and the tall tawny chieftain; fleet *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look on** | participle |  | the tall tawny chieftain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **approve** | gerund | wife *not said here* | the boast of the mother |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **boast** |  | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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