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title: Not by word or look he answered; Only ate the food provided, Filled,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Not by word or look he answered; Only ate the food provided, Filled, his pipe and pensive puffed it, Smoked and sat in sullen silence. Who acts: panther, pipe. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 30

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Not by word or look he answered; Only ate the food provided, Filled, his pipe and pensive puffed it, Smoked and sat in sullen silence.

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**Who acts:** panther, pipe · **What happens:** look, answer, eat, provide, fill, puff · **To what, where:** food, word, sullen silence

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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 (panther, pipe), 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:pg8122:18:30
# text = Not by word or look he answered; Only ate the food provided, Filled, his pipe and pensive puffed it, Smoked and sat in sullen silence.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pensive	pensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Smoked	smoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | panther |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | past |  | the food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **puff** | past | panther's pipe | word |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Source |
| 7 | **smoke** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | sullen silence |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |

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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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