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title: Mah-pí-ya Dú-ta [12] the tall Red Cloud, A hunter swift and a warrio… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Mah-pí-ya Dú-ta [12] the tall Red Cloud, A hunter swift and a warrior proud, With many a scar and many a feather, Was a suitor bold and a lover fond. Who acts: Dú. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 28

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Mah-pí-ya Dú-ta \[12\] the tall Red Cloud, A hunter swift and a warrior proud, With many a scar and many a feather, Was a suitor bold and a lover fond.

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**Who acts:** Dú · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** suitor bold

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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 (Dú), 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:pg8122:6:28
# text = Mah-pí-ya Dú-ta [12] the tall Red Cloud, A hunter swift and a warrior proud, With many a scar and many a feather, Was a suitor bold and a lover fond.
1	Mah	Mah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pí	pí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Dú	Dú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ta	ta	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	With	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scar	scar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
34	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dú  Mah pí ya | a suitor bold and a lover |  |  |  | a lover *conj* | 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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