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title: He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of winter, in order to give all creatures time to prepare for it.] Who acts: giant. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 19

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He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of winter, in order to give all creatures time to prepare for it.\]

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**Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** send, give, prepare · **To what, where:** warnings, severe cold

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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:pg8122:23:19
# text = He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of winter, in order to give all creatures time to prepare for it.]
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | giant | warnings |  |  |  | always *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present | giant | the severe cold of winter |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | giant *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for order | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |

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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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