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title: Three times have the gifts for the bride [25] to the lodge of Ta-té-… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Three times have the gifts for the bride [25] to the lodge of Ta-té-psin been carried. Who acts: Three times, lodge. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 19

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Three times have the gifts for the bride \[25\] to the lodge of Ta-té-psin been carried.

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**Who acts:** Three times, lodge · **What happens:** have, carry · **To what, where:** gifts, té psin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three times, lodge), 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:pg8122:12:19
# text = Three times have the gifts for the bride [25] to the lodge of Ta-té-psin been carried.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Three times | the gifts |  |  |  | for the bride | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | participle · passive | the lodge *not said here* | té psin |  |  |  | of Ta | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of ta=Initial\_Location |

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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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