--- title: Brought the mallard from the marshes,-- Royal feast for boy and moth… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Brought the mallard from the marshes,-- Royal feast for boy and mother: Brought the hides of fox and beaver, Brought the skins of mink and otter, Lured the loon and took his blanket, Took his blanket for the Raven. 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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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:18:14 # text = Brought the mallard from the marshes,-- Royal feast for boy and mother: Brought the hides of fox and beaver, Brought the skins of mink and otter, Lured the loon and took his blanket, Took his blanket for the Raven. 1 Brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mallard mallard NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 marshes marsh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hides hide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 mink mink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Lured lure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 loon loon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Raven Raven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | | the mallard | | the marshes | | Royal feast for boy and mother *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mallard=Theme from marsh=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **bring** | participle | | the hides of fox and beaver | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hide=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | past | | the skins of mink and otter | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 4 | **lure** | past | | the loon | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loon=Patient | | 5 | **take** | past | | boy's blanket | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past | | boy's blanket | | | | for the Raven | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme for raven=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/15/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)