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title: The wild-rice is gathered, the meat of the bison is stored in the te… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild-rice is gathered, the meat of the bison is stored in the teepee; Till the Coon-Moon [71] enough and to spare; and if then the white warrior return not, Winona will follow the bear, and the coon, to their dens in the forest. Who acts: Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanfo
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 88

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The wild-rice is gathered, the meat of the bison is stored in the teepee; Till the Coon-Moon \[71\] enough and to spare; and if then the white warrior return not, Winona will follow the bear, and the coon, to their dens in the forest.

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**Who acts:** Winona · **What happens:** gather, store, spare, not follow · **To what, where:** wild rice, meat, teepee, bear, dens

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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), 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:pg8122:13:88
# text = The wild-rice is gathered, the meat of the bison is stored in the teepee; Till the Coon-Moon [71] enough and to spare; and if then the white warrior return not, Winona will follow the bear, and the coon, to their dens in the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	dens	den	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present · passive |  | the wild rice |  |  |  | the white warrior return *parataxis* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **store** | present · passive |  | the meat of the bison |  | the teepee |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in teepee=Location |
| 3 | **spare** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **follow** | future | Winona | the bear and the coon |  | Rice's dens in the forest |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bear=Theme to den=Trajectory |

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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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