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title: Love and joy sat in the tepee; him a black-eyed boy she bore; But al… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Love and joy sat in the tepee; him a black-eyed boy she bore; But alas, she lived to weep a love she lost forevermore. Who acts: Love. 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 12

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Love and joy sat in the tepee; him a black-eyed boy she bore; But alas, she lived to weep a love she lost forevermore.

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**Who acts:** Love · **What happens:** sit, bear, live, weep, lose · **To what, where:** alas, tepee, eyed boy, love

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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 (Love), 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:pg8122:17:12
# text = Love and joy sat in the tepee; him a black-eyed boy she bore; But alas, she lived to weep a love she lost forevermore.
1	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tepee	tepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	forevermore	forevermore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Love and joy | alas |  | the tepee |  | beaver *advcl*; a eyed boy *advcl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tepee=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | past | love | a eyed boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | past | love |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weep** | to-infinitive | love *not said here* | a love |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent love=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | past | love | a love *not said here* |  |  |  | forevermore *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |

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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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