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title: Then again the brawny hunter Brought the black bear and the beaver,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then again the brawny hunter Brought the black bear and the beaver, Brought the haunch of elk and red-deer, Brought the rabbit and the pheasant-- Choicest bits of all for Red Fox. Who acts: brawny hunter. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 61

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Then again the brawny hunter Brought the black bear and the beaver, Brought the haunch of elk and red-deer, Brought the rabbit and the pheasant-- Choicest bits of all for Red Fox.

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**Who acts:** brawny hunter · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** black bear, haunch, rabbit

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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 (brawny hunter), 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:pg8122:18:61
# text = Then again the brawny hunter Brought the black bear and the beaver, Brought the haunch of elk and red-deer, Brought the rabbit and the pheasant-- Choicest bits of all for Red Fox.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	haunch	haunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pheasant	pheasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the brawny hunter | the black bear and the beaver |  |  | again; then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the brawny hunter *not said here* | the haunch of elk and red deer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent haunch=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the brawny hunter *not said here* |  | the rabbit and the pheasant and Choicest bits of all for Red Fox |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination |

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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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