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title: When their first born saw the sunlight Joyful was the heart of Panth… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When their first born saw the sunlight Joyful was the heart of Panther, Proud and joyful was the mother. Who acts: Joyful, heart. 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 6

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When their first born saw the sunlight Joyful was the heart of Panther, Proud and joyful was the mother.

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**Who acts:** Joyful, heart · **What happens:** bear, see, be · **To what, where:** sunlight, heart, mother · **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 (Joyful, heart), 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:pg8122:18:6
# text = When their first born saw the sunlight Joyful was the heart of Panther, Proud and joyful was the mother.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	csubj:pass	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Joyful	Joyful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | past | Joyful *not said here* | the sunlight |  |  |  | robin *nmod:poss* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunlight=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Joyful | the heart |  |  |  | of Panther | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the heart | the mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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