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title: Those who conduct the game cry at the top of their voices when they… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who conduct the game cry at the top of their voices when they rattle the platter and they strike their shoulders so hard as to leave them all black with the blows."] Who acts: Those, stone. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, w
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 139

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Those who conduct the game cry at the top of their voices when they rattle the platter and they strike their shoulders so hard as to leave them all black with the blows."\]

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**Who acts:** Those, stone · **What happens:** conduct, rattle, strike, leave · **To what, where:** game cry, top, platter, shoulders, stone

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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 (Those, 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:pg8122:21:139
# text = Those who conduct the game cry at the top of their voices when they rattle the platter and they strike their shoulders so hard as to leave them all black with the blows."]
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rattle	rattle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	platter	platter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	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 | **conduct** | present | Those | the game cry |  | the top of stone's voices |  | who *nsubj* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at top=Destination |
| 2 | **rattle** | present | stone | the platter |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent platter=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | present | stone | stone's shoulders |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | stone *not said here* | stone |  |  |  | with the blows | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme black=Attribute |

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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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