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title: So they called the brave "Ska Câpa"; [a] but the fairest of the band… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: So they called the brave "Ska Câpa"; [a] but the fairest of the band-- Moon-faced, meek Anpétu-Sâpa--won the hunter's heart and hand. Who acts: eyes. 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 8

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So they called the brave "Ska Câpa"; \[a\] but the fairest of the band-- Moon-faced, meek Anpétu-Sâpa--won the hunter's heart and hand.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** call, win · **To what, where:** brave Ska Câpa, heart · **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 (eyes), 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:pg8122:17:8
# text = So they called the brave "Ska Câpa"; [a] but the fairest of the band-- Moon-faced, meek Anpétu-Sâpa--won the hunter's heart and hand.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ska	Ska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Câpa	Câpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	meek	meek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Anpétu	Anpétu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Sâpa	Sâpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **call** | past | eyes *= eye* |  | the brave Ska Câpa |  |  | fair *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent câpa=Recipient |
| 2 | **win** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | the hunter's heart and hand |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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