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title: To bid the brave White Chief adieu, on the shady shore gathered the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To bid the brave White Chief adieu, on the shady shore gathered the warriors; His glad boatmen manned the canoe, and the oars in their hands were impatient. Who acts: shady shore, glad boatmen, oars. 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 45

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To bid the brave White Chief adieu, on the shady shore gathered the warriors; His glad boatmen manned the canoe, and the oars in their hands were impatient.

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**Who acts:** shady shore, glad boatmen, oars · **What happens:** bid, gather, man, be · **To what, where:** brave Chief adieu, warriors, canoe

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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 (shady shore, glad boatmen, oars), 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:pg8122:12:46
# text = To bid the brave White Chief adieu, on the shady shore gathered the warriors; His glad boatmen manned the canoe, and the oars in their hands were impatient.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	adieu	adieu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	manned	man	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bid** | to-infinitive |  | the brave Chief adieu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the shady shore | the warriors |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 3 | **man** | past | shore's glad boatmen | the canoe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the oars in oars's hands |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | tree rules |

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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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