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title: Winona, Tamdóka can make my empty lodge laugh with abundance; For th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Winona, Tamdóka can make my empty lodge laugh with abundance; For thine aged and blind father's sake, to the son of the Chief speak the promise. Who acts: Winona, empty lodge, sake. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 77

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Winona, Tamdóka can make my empty lodge laugh with abundance; For thine aged and blind father's sake, to the son of the Chief speak the promise.

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**Who acts:** Winona, empty lodge, sake · **What happens:** make, laugh, speak · **To what, where:** empty lodge, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Winona, empty lodge, sake), 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:pg8122:13:77
# text = Winona, Tamdóka can make my empty lodge laugh with abundance; For thine aged and blind father's sake, to the son of the Chief speak the promise.
1	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	For	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Winona | my empty lodge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | my empty lodge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with abundance | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thine aged father's sake and the son of the Chief | the promise |  |  |  |  | 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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