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title: Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace that girdled his brawny neck Was the polished claws of the great Mató [14] He grappled and slew in the northern snow. Who acts: necklace, Proud. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--t
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 22

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Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace that girdled his brawny neck Was the polished claws of the great Mató \[14\] He grappled and slew in the northern snow.

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**Who acts:** necklace, Proud · **What happens:** be, girdle, polish, grapple, slay · **To what, where:** red stripes, swarthy cheek, brawny neck, polished claws, northern snow

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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 (necklace, Proud), 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:pg8122:7:22
# text = Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace that girdled his brawny neck Was the polished claws of the great Mató [14] He grappled and slew in the northern snow.
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	girdled	girdle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Mató	Mató	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
28	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	grappled	grapple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the red stripes and the polished claws |  | Proud's swarthy cheek |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **girdle** | past | the necklace | Proud's brawny neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the necklace | the polished claws |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grapple** | past | Proud | the polished claws *not said here* |  |  |  | of the great Mató | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
| 6 | **slay** | past | Proud *not said here* |  |  | the northern snow |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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