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title: Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her hau… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her haughty tread, For maidens and warriors and chieftain knew That her lips were false and her charge untrue. Who acts: roar, fawn, words, maidens. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 23

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Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her haughty tread, For maidens and warriors and chieftain knew That her lips were false and her charge untrue.

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**Who acts:** roar, fawn, words, maidens, lips · **What happens:** heed, say, care, know, be, charge · **To what, where:** Little, words, That · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (roar, fawn, words, maidens), 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:pg8122:6:23
# text = Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her haughty tread, For maidens and warriors and chieftain knew That her lips were false and her charge untrue.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heeded	heed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	For	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
32	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heed** | past | roar | Little |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fawn | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **care** | past | the words |  |  |  |  | for fawn's haughty tread; roar *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for tread=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | maidens and warriors and chieftain | That |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | fawn's lips |  |  |  |  | false *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **charge** | infinitive | fawn's lips *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fawn *nmod:poss*; untrue *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tread** |  | fawn |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «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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