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title: Sometimes a number engage in it together and unite their prayers and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes a number engage in it together and unite their prayers and songs." " Who acts: number engage, stones. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 7

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Sometimes a number engage in it together and unite their prayers and songs." "

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**Who acts:** number engage, stones · **What happens:** unite, pray · **To what, where:** prayers

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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 (number engage, stones), 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:pg8122:22:7
# text = Sometimes a number engage in it together and unite their prayers and songs." "
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	engage	engage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unite** | infinitive | a number engage in steam | stones's prayers and songs |  |  |  | together *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 2 | **pray** |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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