--- title: With a slender hair she led him, With a slender hair he drew him, Dr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: With a slender hair she led him, With a slender hair he drew him, Drew him often to her wigwam; There she bound him, there she held him Tangled in her raven tresses, Tied and tangled in her tresses. Who acts: Waub, Son. 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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: who acts (Waub, Son), 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:pg8122:18:57 # text = With a slender hair she led him, With a slender hair he drew him, Drew him often to her wigwam; There she bound him, there she held him Tangled in her raven tresses, Tied and tangled in her tresses. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 With with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 Drew Drew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wigwam wigwam NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bound bind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 Tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 37 tresses tress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 tresses tress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | Waub | Son | | | | with a slender hair; with a slender hair and Waub's wigwam Drew Ojeeg | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | past | Son | Ojeeg | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **bind** | past | Waub | Ojeeg | | there | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **hold** | past | Waub | Ojeeg | | there | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **tangle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tress** | present | Waub *not said here* | | | Waub's raven | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tie** | participle | Waub *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **tangle** | participle | Waub *not said here* | | | Waub's tresses | | | tree rules | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/58/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)