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title: It must contain four kinds of medicine (or magic) representing birds… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: It must contain four kinds of medicine (or magic) representing birds, beasts, herbs and trees, viz: The down of the female swan colored red, the roots of certain grasses, bark from the roots of cedar trees, and hair of the buffalo. " Who acts: sack, down. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 16

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It must contain four kinds of medicine (or magic) representing birds, beasts, herbs and trees, viz: The down of the female swan colored red, the roots of certain grasses, bark from the roots of cedar trees, and hair of the buffalo. "

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**Who acts:** sack, down · **What happens:** contain, represent, color · **To what, where:** four kinds, roots

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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 (sack, down), 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:pg8122:22:16
# text = It must contain four kinds of medicine (or magic) representing birds, beasts, herbs and trees, viz: The down of the female swan colored red, the roots of certain grasses, bark from the roots of cedar trees, and hair of the buffalo. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	viz	viz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	colored	color	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | must | sack | four kinds of medicine  magic representing birds and beasts and herbs and trees  viz |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **color** | past | the down of the female swan | the roots of certain grasses and bark from the roots of cedar trees |  |  |  | hair of the buffalo *obl*; red *property* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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