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title: Down the broad Gitchee Seebee [a] the band took their way to the Gam… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Down the broad Gitchee Seebee [a] the band took their way to the Games at Keóza. Who acts: band. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 115

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Down the broad Gitchee Seebee \[a\] the band took their way to the Games at Keóza.

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**Who acts:** band · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** way, Games

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band), 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:pg8122:14:115
# text = Down the broad Gitchee Seebee [a] the band took their way to the Games at Keóza.
1	Down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	broad	broad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Seebee	Seebee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Keóza	Keóza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a band | Aké's way |  | the Games at Keóza |  | down the broad Gitchee Seebee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to game=Destination |

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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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