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title: Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther, Son of Waub-Ojeeg, the warrior, And the brave are ever silent; But a whining dog is woman, Whining ever like a coward." Who acts: Gruffly, Brave, whining dog, woman. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordo
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 34

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Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther, Son of Waub-Ojeeg, the warrior, And the brave are ever silent; But a whining dog is woman, Whining ever like a coward."

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**Who acts:** Gruffly, Brave, whining dog, woman · **What happens:** answer, be, whine · **To what, where:** Panther, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gruffly, Brave, whining dog, woman), 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:pg8122:18:34
# text = Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther, Son of Waub-Ojeeg, the warrior, And the brave are ever silent; But a whining dog is woman, Whining ever like a coward."
1	Gruffly	Gruffly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Brave	brave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Ojeeg	Ojeeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whining	whining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Whining	whine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Gruffly |  |  |  | then | the Panther *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Brave among the brave | Panther and Son of Waub and the warrior |  |  |  | Son of Waub *conj*; the warrior *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the brave |  |  |  | ever | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a whining dog | woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **whine** *in a quote* | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | like a coward | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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