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title: They matured into infants and these were then collected and scattere… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They matured into infants and these were then collected and scattered and became full-grown Dakotas. Who acts: worms. 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 54

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They matured into infants and these were then collected and scattered and became full-grown Dakotas.

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**Who acts:** worms · **What happens:** mature, collect, scatter, become, grow · **To what, where:** these, grown Dakotas

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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 (worms), 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:pg8122:21:54
# text = They matured into infants and these were then collected and scattered and became full-grown Dakotas.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	matured	mature	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	infants	infant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mature** | past | worms *= worm* |  |  |  |  | into infants | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into infant=Product |
| 2 | **collect** | past · passive |  | these |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | worms *= worm* *not said here* | grown Dakotas |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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