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title: There are fairer maidens than she, and proud Were their hearts to be… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: There are fairer maidens than she, and proud Were their hearts to be loved by the brave Red Cloud. Who acts: fairer maidens, brave Red Cloud. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 109

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There are fairer maidens than she, and proud Were their hearts to be loved by the brave Red Cloud.

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**Who acts:** fairer maidens, brave Red Cloud · **What happens:** be, love · **To what, where:** proud hearts

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairer maidens, brave Red Cloud), 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:pg8122:7:109
# text = There are fairer maidens than she, and proud Were their hearts to be loved by the brave Red Cloud.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | fairer maidens than Wiwâstè |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | braves's proud hearts |  |  |  | braves *= brave* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive · passive | the brave Red Cloud |  |  |  |  |  | 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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