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title: Would you hear the legend olden, hearken while I tell the tale-- Sho… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Would you hear the legend olden, hearken while I tell the tale-- Shorn, alas, of many a golden, weird Dakota chant and wail. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 23

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Would you hear the legend olden, hearken while I tell the tale-- Shorn, alas, of many a golden, weird Dakota chant and wail.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hear, hearken, tell · **To what, where:** legend, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg8122:16:23
# text = Would you hear the legend olden, hearken while I tell the tale-- Shorn, alas, of many a golden, weird Dakota chant and wail.
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Shorn	shorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | you | the legend |  |  |  | olden *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | the tale and alas |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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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