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title: Tall was young Wanâta, stronger than Heyóka's [16] giant form. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Tall was young Wanâta, stronger than Heyóka's [16] giant form. Who acts: Tall, Heyóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 1

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Tall was young Wanâta, stronger than Heyóka's \[16\] giant form.

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**Who acts:** Tall, Heyóka · **What happens:** be, form

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tall, Heyóka), 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:pg8122:17:1
# text = Tall was young Wanâta, stronger than Heyóka's [16] giant form.
1	Tall	Tall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tall |  |  |  |  | than Heyóka's giant form; young Wanâta *nsubj*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** |  | Heyóka |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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