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title: After describing the method Hennepin says: "When he had made me swea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: After describing the method Hennepin says: "When he had made me sweat thus three times in a week, I felt as strong as ever." Who acts: Father, I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 10

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After describing the method Hennepin says: "When he had made me sweat thus three times in a week, I felt as strong as ever."

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**Who acts:** Father, I · **What happens:** describe, say, make, feel · **To what, where:** method, sweat, me · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, I), 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:pg8122:22:10
# text = After describing the method Hennepin says: "When he had made me sweat thus three times in a week, I felt as strong as ever."
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | gerund |  | the method |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent method=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Father | sweat | me |  | time; week |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary sweat=Product |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as ever=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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