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title: [d] Pah hin--the porcupine--the quill of which are greatly prized fo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [d] Pah hin--the porcupine--the quill of which are greatly prized for ornamental work. 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 125

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\[d\] Pah hin--the porcupine--the quill of which are greatly prized for ornamental work.

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**What happens:** prize · **To what, where:** d Pah hin

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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: 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:pg8122:14:125
# text = [d] Pah hin--the porcupine--the quill of which are greatly prized for ornamental work.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	d	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Pah	pah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hin	hin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	5	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	prized	prize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prize** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the quill; for ornamental work; greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for work=Attribute |

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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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