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title: [8] Kapóza's chief and his tawny hunters Are gathered to witness the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [8] Kapóza's chief and his tawny hunters Are gathered to witness the queenly game. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 9

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\[8\] Kapóza's chief and his tawny hunters Are gathered to witness the queenly game.

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**What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** tawny hunters, 8

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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: 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:pg8122:6:9
# text = [8] Kapóza's chief and his tawny hunters Are gathered to witness the queenly game.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Kapóza	Kapóza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present · passive |  | Kapóza's tawny hunters |  |  |  | the queenly game *obl:unmarked*; witness *xcomp* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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