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title: They thrust their hands in the boiling pot; They swallow the bison m… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They thrust their hands in the boiling pot; They swallow the bison meat steaming hot, Not a wince on their stoical faces bold. Who acts: warriors, bison meat. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 19

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They thrust their hands in the boiling pot; They swallow the bison meat steaming hot, Not a wince on their stoical faces bold.

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**Who acts:** warriors, bison meat · **What happens:** thrust, swallow, steam · **To what, where:** hands, boiling pot, bison meat

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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 (warriors, bison meat), 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:pg8122:7:19
# text = They thrust their hands in the boiling pot; They swallow the bison meat steaming hot, Not a wince on their stoical faces bold.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wince	wince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	stoical	stoical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrust** | past | warriors *= warrior* | warriors's hands |  | the boiling pot |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | warriors *= warrior* | the bison meat |  |  |  | a wince on warriors's faces bold *conj* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 3 | **steam** | gerund | the bison meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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