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title: The gifts to the teepee were brought --the blankets, and beads of th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The gifts to the teepee were brought --the blankets, and beads of the White men, And Winona, the orphaned, was bought by the crafty relentless Tamdóka. Who acts: crafty relentless Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 129

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The gifts to the teepee were brought --the blankets, and beads of the White men, And Winona, the orphaned, was bought by the crafty relentless Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** crafty relentless Tamdóka · **What happens:** bring, orphan, buy · **To what, where:** gifts, Winona

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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 (crafty relentless 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:pg8122:14:129
# text = The gifts to the teepee were brought --the blankets, and beads of the White men, And Winona, the orphaned, was bought by the crafty relentless Tamdóka.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	orphaned	orphan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	relentless	relentless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the gifts to the teepee |  |  |  | the blankets  beads of the White men *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination blanket=Theme |
| 2 | **orphan** | participle |  | Winona *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buy** | past · passive | the crafty relentless Tamdóka | Winona |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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