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title: When the braves told their tale, like a bird sang the heart of Winon… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When the braves told their tale, like a bird sang the heart of Winona rejoicing, But gladlier still had she heard of the death of the crafty Tamdóka. Who acts: braves, heart, Winona, crafty Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6,
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 96

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When the braves told their tale, like a bird sang the heart of Winona rejoicing, But gladlier still had she heard of the death of the crafty Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** braves, heart, Winona, crafty Tamdóka · **What happens:** tell, sing, rejoice, have, hear, die · **To what, where:** tale, heart · **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 (braves, heart, Winona, crafty Tamdóka), 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:pg8122:13:96
# text = When the braves told their tale, like a bird sang the heart of Winona rejoicing, But gladlier still had she heard of the death of the crafty Tamdóka.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gladlier	gladly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the braves | braves's tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | the heart of Winona |  |  |  | like a bird | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoice** | gerund | the heart of Winona *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | participle | Winona |  |  |  |  | of the death of the crafty Tamdóka | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus |
| 6 | **tell** |  | braves *= brave* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **die** |  | the crafty Tamdóka |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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