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title: And thrice were the gifts sent away, but the tongue of the mother pr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And thrice were the gifts sent away, but the tongue of the mother protested, And the were wolf [52] still follows his prey, abides but the death of my father." Who acts: thrice, tongue, wolf, father. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 21

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And thrice were the gifts sent away, but the tongue of the mother protested, And the were wolf \[52\] still follows his prey, abides but the death of my father."

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**Who acts:** thrice, tongue, wolf, father · **What happens:** be, send away, protest, follow, abide, die · **To what, where:** gifts, wolf, prey, death

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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 (thrice, tongue, wolf, father), 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:pg8122:12:21
# text = And thrice were the gifts sent away, but the tongue of the mother protested, And the were wolf [52] still follows his prey, abides but the death of my father."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	abides	abide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | thrice |  |  |  |  | the gifts *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send away** | participle |  | the gifts *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | the tongue of the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the wolf |  |  |  | 52 *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | present | the wolf | wolf's prey |  |  | still |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 6 | **abide** | present | the wolf *not said here* | the death of my father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **die** |  | my father |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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