--- title: It is said that the "Medicine-men" use a secret preparation which en… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: It is said that the "Medicine-men" use a secret preparation which enables them to handle fire and dip their hands in boiling water without injury, and thereby gain great _eclat_ from the uninitiated. Who acts: Medicine men, secret preparation, Dakotas. 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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 (Medicine men, secret preparation, Dakotas), 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:pg8122:20:72 # text = It is said that the "Medicine-men" use a secret preparation which enables them to handle fire and dip their hands in boiling water without injury, and thereby gain great _eclat_ from the uninitiated. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 preparation preparation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 enables enable VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 handle handle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 dip dip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 in in SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 boiling boil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 eclat eclat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ _ 38 from from SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 uninitiated uninitiate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Wacípee | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | the Medicine men | a secret preparation | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Patient | | 3 | **enable** | present | a secret preparation | Dakotas *= dakota* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **handle** | to-infinitive | Dakotas *= dakota* *not said here* | fire | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 5 | **dip** | present | the Medicine men *not said here* | Dakotas's hands | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 6 | **boil** | gerund | the Medicine men *not said here* | water | | | | without injury | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 7 | **gain** | present | | great eclat | | | | thereby *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eclat=Theme | | 8 | **uninitiate** | participle | | great eclat *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/73/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/)