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title: [9] And waving the beautiful prize anon, The dusky warriors cheer th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [9] And waving the beautiful prize anon, The dusky warriors cheer them on. Who acts: dusky warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 13

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\[9\] And waving the beautiful prize anon, The dusky warriors cheer them on.

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**Who acts:** dusky warriors · **What happens:** wave, cheer on · **To what, where:** beautiful prize anon, maidens, 9

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. \[2\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dusky warriors), 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:pg8122:6:13
# text = [9] And waving the beautiful prize anon, The dusky warriors cheer them on.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cheer	cheer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund |  | the beautiful prize anon |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anon=Patient |
| 2 | **cheer on** | present | the dusky warriors | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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