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title: His thin locks the aged brave shook; to himself half inaudibly mutte… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: His thin locks the aged brave shook; to himself half inaudibly muttered; To Winona no answer he spoke --only moaned he "Micunksee! Who acts: heart. 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 eve
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 98

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His thin locks the aged brave shook; to himself half inaudibly muttered; To Winona no answer he spoke --only moaned he "Micunksee!

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** lock, mutter, speak, moan · **To what, where:** aged brave shook, heart, answer, Winona · **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 (heart), 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:pg8122:13:98
# text = His thin locks the aged brave shook; to himself half inaudibly muttered; To Winona no answer he spoke --only moaned he "Micunksee!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shook	shook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	advmod	_	_
12	inaudibly	inaudibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	To	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Micunksee	Micunksee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | present |  | the aged brave shook |  |  |  | heart *nmod:poss* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shook=Patient |
| 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | heart |  |  |  | half, inaudibly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | heart | no answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **moan** | past |  |  | Winona |  |  | Micunksee  heart *parataxis* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to winona=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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