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title: Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them to bring up dirt from beneath the waters, and proclaimed death to the disobedient. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 48

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Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them to bring up dirt from beneath the waters, and proclaimed death to the disobedient.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** assemble, order, bring up, proclaim · **To what, where:** aquatic tribes, grand conclave, tribes, dirt, waters, death

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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 (man), 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:pg8122:21:48
# text = Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them to bring up dirt from beneath the waters, and proclaimed death to the disobedient.
1	Assembling	assemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conclave	conclave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	aquatic	aquatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | gerund |  | all aquatic tribes |  | grand conclave |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | man |  | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | dirt |  | the waters |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past | man *not said here* | death |  |  |  | to the disobedient | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent death=Theme to disobedient=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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