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title: When the war-whoop wild resounded, calling friends to meet the foe,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When the war-whoop wild resounded, calling friends to meet the foe, From the teepee swift he bounded, armed with polished lance and bow. Who acts: Wanâta. 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 4

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When the war-whoop wild resounded, calling friends to meet the foe, From the teepee swift he bounded, armed with polished lance and bow.

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**Who acts:** Wanâta · **What happens:** resound, call, meet, bound, polish · **To what, where:** war whoop, friends, foe, teepee swift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg8122:17:4
# text = When the war-whoop wild resounded, calling friends to meet the foe, From the teepee swift he bounded, armed with polished lance and bow.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	From	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resound** | participle · passive |  | the war whoop |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund |  | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the foe |  | the teepee swift |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **bound** | past | Wanâta | the teepee swift *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location swift=Theme |
| 5 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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