--- title: With open arms and generous hospitality they welcomed the first whit… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: With open arms and generous hospitality they welcomed the first white men to their land; and were ever faithful in their friendship, till years of wrong and robbery, and want and insult, drove them to desperation and to war. Who acts: traders. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:2:19 # text = With open arms and generous hospitality they welcomed the first white men to their land; and were ever faithful in their friendship, till years of wrong and robbery, and want and insult, drove them to desperation and to war. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 generous generous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hospitality hospitality NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 welcomed welcome VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 11 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 20 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 till till ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 robbery robbery NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 insult insult VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 37 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 desperation desperation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 to to ADP TO _ 43 case _ _ 43 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **welcome** | past | traders *= trader* | the first white men | | | | to traders's land | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | traders's friendship | ever | faithful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **insult** | present | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **drive** | past | | traders *= trader* | | desperation and war | | with open arms and generous hospitality | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to desperation=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/19/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/)