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title: Where the war whoop rose, and, after, women wailed their warriors sl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Where the war whoop rose, and, after, women wailed their warriors slain, List the Saxon's silvery laughter, and his humming hives of gain. Who acts: war whoop, women. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 12

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Where the war whoop rose, and, after, women wailed their warriors slain, List the Saxon's silvery laughter, and his humming hives of gain.

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**Who acts:** war whoop, women · **What happens:** rise, wail, list · **To what, where:** humming hives, warriors, silvery laughter

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war whoop, women), 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:pg8122:4:12
# text = Where the war whoop rose, and, after, women wailed their warriors slain, List the Saxon's silvery laughter, and his humming hives of gain.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	List	list	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the war whoop | whoop's humming hives of gain |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wail** | past | women | Women's warriors |  |  |  | slain *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 3 | **list** | infinitive | the war whoop *not said here* | the Saxon's silvery laughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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