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title: To the wigwam happy Panther, As when first he wooed and won her, Led… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To the wigwam happy Panther, As when first he wooed and won her, Led his wife--as young and handsome. Who acts: Sprang. 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 55

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To the wigwam happy Panther, As when first he wooed and won her, Led his wife--as young and handsome.

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**Who acts:** Sprang · **What happens:** woo, win, lead · **To what, where:** woman, wife

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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 (Sprang), 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:pg8122:19:55
# text = To the wigwam happy Panther, As when first he wooed and won her, Led his wife--as young and handsome.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	As	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wooed	woo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **woo** | past | Sprang |  |  |  |  | to the wigwam happy Panther | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | past | Sprang *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lead** | past | Sprang *not said here* | Sprang's wife |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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