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title: [84] Where the Black Robes, the brave shepherds, fed their wild shee… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [84] Where the Black Robes, the brave shepherds, fed their wild sheep on the isle Wau-ga-bá-mé. Who acts: Black Robes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 44

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\[84\] Where the Black Robes, the brave shepherds, fed their wild sheep on the isle Wau-ga-bá-mé.

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**Who acts:** Black Robes · **What happens:** feed · **To what, where:** 84, isle

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Robes), 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:pg8122:13:44
# text = [84] Where the Black Robes, the brave shepherds, fed their wild sheep on the isle Wau-ga-bá-mé.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	84	84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Robes	Robe	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	Wau	Wau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ga	ga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bá	bá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mé	mé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | the Black Robes and the brave shepherds | 84 |  | the isle and bá mé |  | robes's wild sheep *obj* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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