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title: Old men and mothers are among the spectators praising their swift-fo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Old men and mothers are among the spectators praising their swift-footed sons, and young wives and maidens are there to stimulate their husbands and lovers. Who acts: Old men, spectators, young wives. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 124

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Old men and mothers are among the spectators praising their swift-footed sons, and young wives and maidens are there to stimulate their husbands and lovers.

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**Who acts:** Old men, spectators, young wives · **What happens:** be, praise, stimulate · **To what, where:** footed sons, husbands

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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 (Old men, spectators, young wives), 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:pg8122:19:124
# text = Old men and mothers are among the spectators praising their swift-footed sons, and young wives and maidens are there to stimulate their husbands and lovers.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	stimulate	stimulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Old men and mothers |  |  |  |  | among the spectators | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | gerund | the spectators *not said here* | men's footed sons |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | young wives and maidens |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stimulate** | to-infinitive | Old men and mothers *not said here* | men's husbands and lovers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer |

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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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