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title: The devotee, stripped to the skin, sits within this steam-tight dome… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The devotee, stripped to the skin, sits within this steam-tight dome, sweating profusely at every pore, until he is nearly suffocated. Who acts: devotee. 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
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 6

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The devotee, stripped to the skin, sits within this steam-tight dome, sweating profusely at every pore, until he is nearly suffocated.

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**Who acts:** devotee · **What happens:** strip, sit, sweat, suffocate · **To what, where:** devotee, pore

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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 (devotee), 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:pg8122:22:6
# text = The devotee, stripped to the skin, sits within this steam-tight dome, sweating profusely at every pore, until he is nearly suffocated.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	devotee	devotee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sweating	sweat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	profusely	profusely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	pore	pore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	suffocated	suffocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strip** | participle |  | the devotee *not said here* |  |  |  | to the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the devotee |  |  |  |  | within this steam and tight dome | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sweat** | gerund | the devotee *not said here* |  |  | every pore |  | profusely *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suffocate** | present · passive |  | devotee |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |

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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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