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title: He dines on the fat of the pemmican-sack, And his _eau de vie_ is th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He dines on the fat of the pemmican-sack, And his _eau de vie_ is the _eau de lac_. Who acts: Merry, _ eau de, _. 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 65

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He dines on the fat of the pemmican-sack, And his \_eau de vie\_ is the \_eau de lac\_.

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**Who acts:** Merry, \_ eau de, \_ · **What happens:** dine, vie, be · **To what, where:** \_ de lac

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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 (Merry, \_ eau de, \_), 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:pg8122:12:66
# text = He dines on the fat of the pemmican-sack, And his _eau de vie_ is the _eau de lac_.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dines	dine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	pemmican	pemmican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	vie	vie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	lac	lac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dine** | present | Merry |  |  |  |  | on the fat of the pemmican sack | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fat=Patient |
| 2 | **vie** | present | Merry's \_ eau de |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | \_ | the \_ de lac |  |  |  |  | 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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