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title: He strode like a stag, and he stood like a pine: Ten feathers he wor… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He strode like a stag, and he stood like a pine: Ten feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè; [13] With crimsoned quills of the porcupine His leggins were worked to his brawny knee. Who acts: Cloud, porcupine. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], wi
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 31

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He strode like a stag, and he stood like a pine: Ten feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè; \[13\] With crimsoned quills of the porcupine His leggins were worked to his brawny knee.

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**Who acts:** Cloud, porcupine · **What happens:** stride, stand, wear, crimson, work · **To what, where:** Ten feathers, leggins

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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 (Cloud, porcupine), 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:pg8122:6:31
# text = He strode like a stag, and he stood like a pine: Ten feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè; [13] With crimsoned quills of the porcupine His leggins were worked to his brawny knee.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Wanmdeè	Wanmdeè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	With	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	quills	quill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	leggins	leggin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | Cloud |  |  |  |  | like a stag | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Cloud | Ten feathers |  |  |  | like a pine; with crimsoned quills of the porcupine; 13 *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wear** | past | Cloud | Ten feathers *not said here* |  |  |  | of the great Wanmdeè | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme of wanmdeè=Source |
| 4 | **crimson** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **work** | past · passive | the porcupine *not said here* | Cloud's leggins |  |  |  | to Cloud's brawny knee | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |

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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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