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title: The star-eyed daughter of Little Crow; [6] And the leader chosen to… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The star-eyed daughter of Little Crow; [6] And the leader chosen to hold command Of the band adverse is a haughty foe-- The dusky, impetuous Hârpstinà, [7] The queenly cousin of Wapasa. Who acts: leader. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with i
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 8

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The star-eyed daughter of Little Crow; \[6\] And the leader chosen to hold command Of the band adverse is a haughty foe-- The dusky, impetuous Hârpstinà, \[7\] The queenly cousin of Wapasa.

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**Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** choose, hold, be, command · **To what, where:** leader, command, haughty foe, 6, band adverse · **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 (leader), 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:pg8122:6:8
# text = The star-eyed daughter of Little Crow; [6] And the leader chosen to hold command Of the band adverse is a haughty foe-- The dusky, impetuous Hârpstinà, [7] The queenly cousin of Wapasa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
16	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	adverse	adverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Wapasa	Wapasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | participle |  | the leader *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  | command of the band adverse |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the leader | a haughty foe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** |  |  | the band adverse |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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