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title: Loved was Mahpíya by Hârpstinà, But the warrior she never could char… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Loved was Mahpíya by Hârpstinà, But the warrior she never could charm or draw; And bitter indeed was her secret hate For the maiden she reckoned so fortunate. Who acts: warrior, Hóhé. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 34

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Loved was Mahpíya by Hârpstinà, But the warrior she never could charm or draw; And bitter indeed was her secret hate For the maiden she reckoned so fortunate.

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**Who acts:** warrior, Hóhé · **What happens:** love, be, charm, reckon · **To what, where:** Mahpíya, bitter secret hate, maiden

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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 (warrior, 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:pg8122:6:34
# text = Loved was Mahpíya by Hârpstinà, But the warrior she never could charm or draw; And bitter indeed was her secret hate For the maiden she reckoned so fortunate.
1	Loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Mahpíya	Mahpíya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
24	For	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Hârpstinà | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Mahpíya |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **charm** | could | the warrior |  |  |  |  | draw *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Hóhé's bitter secret hate |  |  |  | for the maiden; Hóhé *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reckon** | past | Hóhé | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent maiden=Attribute |

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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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