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title: Hennepin says: "There are some so given to this game that they will… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hennepin says: "There are some so given to this game that they will gamble away even their great coat. Who acts: Hennepin, some, stone. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 138

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Hennepin says: "There are some so given to this game that they will gamble away even their great coat.

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**Who acts:** Hennepin, some, stone · **What happens:** say, be, give, gamble away · **To what, where:** game, great coat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hennepin, some, stone), 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:pg8122:21:138
# text = Hennepin says: "There are some so given to this game that they will gamble away even their great coat.
1	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gamble	gamble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hennepin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | some |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | participle | some *not said here* |  | this game |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to game=Recipient |
| 4 | **gamble away** *in a quote* | future | stone | stone's great coat |  |  |  | away *property* | vn risk-94 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Pivot |

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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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