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title: In the tee of Ta-té-psin the store of wild-rice and dried meat was e… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the tee of Ta-té-psin the store of wild-rice and dried meat was exhausted; And Famine crept in at the door, and sat crouching and gaunt by the lodge-fire. Who acts: Famine. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 14

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In the tee of Ta-té-psin the store of wild-rice and dried meat was exhausted; And Famine crept in at the door, and sat crouching and gaunt by the lodge-fire.

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**Who acts:** Famine · **What happens:** dry, exhaust, creep in, sit, crouch, gaunt · **To what, where:** store, tee, door

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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 (Famine), 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:pg8122:14:14
# text = In the tee of Ta-té-psin the store of wild-rice and dried meat was exhausted; And Famine crept in at the door, and sat crouching and gaunt by the lodge-fire.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Famine	Famine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gaunt	gaunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **exhaust** | past · passive |  | the store of wild rice and dried meat |  | the tee of Ta té psin |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **creep in** | past | Famine |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Famine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crouch** | gerund | Famine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gaunt** | infinitive | Famine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the lodge fire | tree rules |

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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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