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title: Apè-dúta ruled the teepee--all Wanâta's smiles were hers; When the l… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Apè-dúta ruled the teepee--all Wanâta's smiles were hers; When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star [c] beheld the mother's tears. Who acts: Apè dúta, smiles, star, Wanâta. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 20

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Apè-dúta ruled the teepee--all Wanâta's smiles were hers; When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star \[c\] beheld the mother's tears.

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**Who acts:** Apè dúta, smiles, star, Wanâta · **What happens:** rule, be, wrap, behold, smile · **To what, where:** teepee, honor, lodge, sleep, tears

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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 (Apè dúta, smiles, star, Wanâta), 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:pg8122:17:20
# text = Apè-dúta ruled the teepee--all Wanâta's smiles were hers; When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star [c] beheld the mother's tears.
1	Apè	Apè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	dúta	dúta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Apè dúta | the teepee |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teepee=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | all Wanâta's smiles | honor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrap** | past · passive |  | the lodge |  | sleep |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sleep=Destination |
| 4 | **behold** | past | a star | the mother's tears |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 5 | **smile** |  | all Wanâta |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «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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