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title: They retain these names till others are given them on account of som… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They retain these names till others are given them on account of some action, peculiarity, etc. The females often retain their child-names through life.] Who acts: Chaskè, females. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 35

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They retain these names till others are given them on account of some action, peculiarity, etc. The females often retain their child-names through life.\]

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**Who acts:** Chaskè, females · **What happens:** retain, give, account, name · **To what, where:** names, others, account, child names, life, action

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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 (Chaskè, females), 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:pg8122:20:35
# text = They retain these names till others are given them on account of some action, peculiarity, etc. The females often retain their child-names through life.]
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	peculiarity	peculiarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | present | Chaskè | this names |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | others |  | account of some action and peculiarity and etc. |  | Chaskè *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient they=Theme on account=Asset |
| 3 | **retain** | present | the females | Chaskè's child names |  | life |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | some action and peculiarity and etc. |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | Chaskè |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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