--- title: Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" and to induce the warrior to drink it; but when it is mixed with a liberal quantity of "fire-water" it is considered irresistable.] Who acts: liberal quantity. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footno --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [Footnotes to the Sea-gull:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/) / 24 # Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 24 Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" and to induce the warrior to drink it; but when it is mixed with a liberal quantity of "fire-water" it is considered irresistable.\] **Who acts:** liberal quantity · **What happens:** devise, conceal, induce, drink, mix, consider · **To what, where:** Various tricks, nature, warrior 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 (liberal quantity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:23:24 # text = Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" and to induce the warrior to drink it; but when it is mixed with a liberal quantity of "fire-water" it is considered irresistable.] 1 Various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 devised devise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 conceal conceal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 induce induce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 warrior warrior NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 liberal liberal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 41 irresistable irresistable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devise** | present · passive | | Various tricks | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **conceal** | to-infinitive | | the nature of the medicine | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Patient | | 3 | **induce** | to-infinitive | | the warrior | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | warrior | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **mix** | present · passive | | warrior | | | | with a liberal quantity of fire water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with quantity=Co-Patient | | 6 | **consider** | present · passive | a liberal quantity of fire water *not said here* | warrior | | | | irresistable *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/25/) - ↑ back to [Footnotes to the Sea-gull:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/)