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title: When one succeeds in getting it fairly in the pocket of his bat he s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When one succeeds in getting it fairly in the pocket of his bat he swings it aloft and throws it as far as he can towards the bound to which his party is working, taking care to send it, if possible, where some of his own side will take it up. Who acts: one, Pa, party, some. A sentence of «Legends o
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 118

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When one succeeds in getting it fairly in the pocket of his bat he swings it aloft and throws it as far as he can towards the bound to which his party is working, taking care to send it, if possible, where some of his own side will take it up.

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**Who acts:** one, Pa, party, some · **What happens:** succeed, get, swing, throw, work, take · **To what, where:** ball, pocket, bound, care

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Pa, party, some), 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:pg8122:19:118
# text = When one succeeds in getting it fairly in the pocket of his bat he swings it aloft and throws it as far as he can towards the bound to which his party is working, taking care to send it, if possible, where some of his own side will take it up.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	advmod	_	_
46	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	parataxis	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | one *not said here* | ball |  | the pocket of Pa's bat |  | fairly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swing** | present | Pa | ball |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | present | Pa *not said here* | ball |  | the bound |  | far *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards bound=Destination |
| 5 | **work** | present · progressive | Pa's party |  |  |  |  | to the bound | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | gerund | Pa *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 7 | **send** | to-infinitive | Pa *not said here* | ball |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **take up** | future | some of Pa's own side | ball |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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