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title: Wiwâstè looked on the warrior tall; She saw he was brawny and brave… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiwâstè looked on the warrior tall; She saw he was brawny and brave and great, But the eyes of the panther she could but hate, And a brave Hóhé [15] loved she better than all. Who acts: Wiwâstè, Cloud, brave Hóhé. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 33

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Wiwâstè looked on the warrior tall; She saw he was brawny and brave and great, But the eyes of the panther she could but hate, And a brave Hóhé \[15\] loved she better than all.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, Cloud, brave Hóhé · **What happens:** look, see, be, love · **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 (Wiwâstè, Cloud, brave Hóhé), 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:pg8122:6:33
# text = Wiwâstè looked on the warrior tall; She saw he was brawny and brave and great, But the eyes of the panther she could but hate, And a brave Hóhé [15] loved she better than all.
1	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	ccomp	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | on the warrior; tall *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on warrior=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Cloud |  |  |  |  | brawny *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **love** | past | a brave Hóhé |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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