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title: The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other ar… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other articles to the father or natural guardian of the woman selected--sometimes against her will. Who acts: proposed husband, woman, way. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 96

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The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other articles to the father or natural guardian of the woman selected--sometimes against her will.

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**Who acts:** proposed husband, woman, way · **What happens:** propose, give, select, value · **To what, where:** horse, natural guardian, other articles

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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 (proposed husband, woman, way), 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:pg8122:20:96
# text = The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other articles to the father or natural guardian of the woman selected--sometimes against her will.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | the proposed husband | a horse or way's value in other articles to the father or natural guardian |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 3 | **select** | past | the woman | natural guardian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Theme |
| 4 | **value** |  | way |  |  | other articles to the father or natural guardian |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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