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title: Next himself old Péboân honored; Thrice he puffed his pipe and passe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Next himself old Péboân honored; Thrice he puffed his pipe and passed it, Passed it to the handsome stranger. Who acts: Péboân, Thrice. 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 89

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Next himself old Péboân honored; Thrice he puffed his pipe and passed it, Passed it to the handsome stranger.

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**Who acts:** Péboân, Thrice · **What happens:** honor, puff, pass · **To what, where:** pipe, handsome stranger

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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 (Péboân, Thrice), 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:pg8122:18:89
# text = Next himself old Péboân honored; Thrice he puffed his pipe and passed it, Passed it to the handsome stranger.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Péboân	Péboân	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	honored	honor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honor** | past | Péboân |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **puff** | past | Thrice | Péboân's pipe |  |  |  | Péboân *nsubj* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pipe=Source |
| 3 | **pass** | past | Thrice *not said here* | pipe |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pass** | past | Thrice *not said here* | pipe | the handsome stranger |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stranger=Recipient |

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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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