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title: Hateful to his heart was Red Fox, But he kept from her the secret--… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hateful to his heart was Red Fox, But he kept from her the secret-- Kept his knowledge of the murder. Who acts: Hateful. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 42

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Hateful to his heart was Red Fox, But he kept from her the secret-- Kept his knowledge of the murder.

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**Who acts:** Hateful · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** secret, knowledge

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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 (Hateful), 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:pg8122:19:42
# text = Hateful to his heart was Red Fox, But he kept from her the secret-- Kept his knowledge of the murder.
1	Hateful	Hateful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hateful |  |  |  |  | to Red Fox; Hateful's heart *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Hateful | the secret |  |  |  | from Fox | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Hateful *not said here* | Hateful's knowledge of the murder |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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