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title: The magical drum sticks are ornamented with down, and heads of birds… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The magical drum sticks are ornamented with down, and heads of birds or animals are carved on them. 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 168

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The magical drum sticks are ornamented with down, and heads of birds or animals are carved on them.

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**What happens:** ornament down, carve · **To what, where:** magical drum sticks, heads

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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: 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:pg8122:21:168
# text = The magical drum sticks are ornamented with down, and heads of birds or animals are carved on them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ornament down** | present · passive |  | the magical drum sticks |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **carve** | present · passive |  | heads of birds or animals |  |  |  | on sticks *= stick* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on they=Destination |

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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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