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title: The warrior who knows is bound on honor, and by old and sacred custo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The warrior who knows is bound on honor, and by old and sacred custom, to expose and publicly denounce any tarnished maiden who dares to enter this ring, and his word cannot be questioned--even by the chief. Who acts: warrior, tarnished maiden, chief, Footnote. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwes
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 170

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The warrior who knows is bound on honor, and by old and sacred custom, to expose and publicly denounce any tarnished maiden who dares to enter this ring, and his word cannot be questioned--even by the chief.

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**Who acts:** warrior, tarnished maiden, chief, Footnote · **What happens:** know, bind, expose, denounce, tarnish, dare · **To what, where:** warrior, honor, tarnished maiden, ring, word

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior, tarnished maiden, chief, Footnote), 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:pg8122:20:170
# text = The warrior who knows is bound on honor, and by old and sacred custom, to expose and publicly denounce any tarnished maiden who dares to enter this ring, and his word cannot be questioned--even by the chief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	denounce	denounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	tarnished	tarnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	questioned	question	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | the warrior |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bind** | present · passive |  | the warrior |  | honor |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **expose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by old custom | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **denounce** | present |  | any tarnished maiden |  |  |  | publicly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 5 | **tarnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **dare** | present | any tarnished maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **enter** | to-infinitive | any tarnished maiden *not said here* | this ring |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |
| 8 | **not** **question** *speech: other* | can · passive | the chief | Footnote's word |  |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 9 | **word** |  | Footnote |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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