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title: [b] A strap used in carrying burdens. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] A strap used in carrying burdens. 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 72

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\[b\] A strap used in carrying burdens.

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**What happens:** use, carry · **To what, where:** strap, burdens

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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:pg8122:14:72
# text = [b] A strap used in carrying burdens.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a strap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  | burdens |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=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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