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title: In the stern of his boat sits DuLuth, in the stern of his boat stand… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the stern of his boat sits DuLuth, in the stern of his boat stands Tamdóka; And warily, cheerily, both urge the oars of their men to the utmost. Who acts: both. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 88

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In the stern of his boat sits DuLuth, in the stern of his boat stands Tamdóka; And warily, cheerily, both urge the oars of their men to the utmost.

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**Who acts:** both · **What happens:** sit, stand, urge · **To what, where:** DuLuth, stern, Tamdóka, oars

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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 (both), 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:pg8122:12:89
# text = In the stern of his boat sits DuLuth, in the stern of his boat stands Tamdóka; And warily, cheerily, both urge the oars of their men to the utmost.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	warily	warily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	urge	urge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	utmost	utmost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present |  | DuLuth |  | the stern of Tamdóka's boat |  | warily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent duluth=Theme in stern=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | present |  | Tamdóka |  | the stern |  | of Tamdóka's boat | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Theme in stern=Destination |
| 3 | **urge** | present | both | the oars of oars's men |  |  |  | to the utmost | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient |

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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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