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title: In my old age forsaken, alone, must I die in my teepee of hunger? — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In my old age forsaken, alone, must I die in my teepee of hunger? Who acts: I. 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 76

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In my old age forsaken, alone, must I die in my teepee of hunger?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** forsake, die · **To what, where:** old age

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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 (I), 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:pg8122:13:76
# text = In my old age forsaken, alone, must I die in my teepee of hunger?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | participle |  | my old age *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | must | I |  |  |  | in my old age | in my teepee of hunger | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in age=Attribute |

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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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