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title: [c] _Drapa_, a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceas… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [c] _Drapa_, a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceased are recounted. 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 42

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\[c\] \_Drapa\_, a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceased are recounted.

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**What happens:** decease, recount · **To what, where:** virtues, Norse funeral wail, c

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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: 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:pg8122:17:42
# text = [c] _Drapa_, a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceased are recounted.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Drapa	Drapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	recounted	recount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **recount** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the virtues |  | a Norse funeral wail |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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