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title: Oft the Panther smiled and fondled, Smiled upon the babe and mother,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Oft the Panther smiled and fondled, Smiled upon the babe and mother, Frolicked with the boy and fondled. Who acts: Oft. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 10

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Oft the Panther smiled and fondled, Smiled upon the babe and mother, Frolicked with the boy and fondled.

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**Who acts:** Oft · **What happens:** smile, fondle, frolic · **To what, where:** babe

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oft), 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:pg8122:18:10
# text = Oft the Panther smiled and fondled, Smiled upon the babe and mother, Frolicked with the boy and fondled.
1	Oft	Oft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fondled	fondle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Frolicked	frolic	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fondled	fondle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | Oft |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fondle** | past | Oft *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smile** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the babe and mother | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **frolic** | participle |  | the babe and mother *not said here* |  |  |  | the boy *obl:agent* | vn play-114.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fondle** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: 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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