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description: But now with the saddle of deer, and the gifts, came the crafty Tamdóka; And he said, "Lo I bring you good cheer, for I love the blind Chief and his daughter. Who acts: gifts, Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its depe
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 15

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But now with the saddle of deer, and the gifts, came the crafty Tamdóka; And he said, "Lo I bring you good cheer, for I love the blind Chief and his daughter.

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**Who acts:** gifts, Tamdóka · **What happens:** come, say, bring, love · **To what, where:** good cheer, you, blind Chief · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gifts, 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:pg8122:14:15
# text = But now with the saddle of deer, and the gifts, came the crafty Tamdóka; And he said, "Lo I bring you good cheer, for I love the blind Chief and his daughter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the gifts |  |  |  |  | the crafty Tamdóka *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tamdóka |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | Tamdóka | good cheer | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination cheer=Theme |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Tamdóka | the blind Chief and Tamdóka's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |

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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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