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title: He snatched from the embers a red-hot brand, And held it aloft in hi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He snatched from the embers a red-hot brand, And held it aloft in his naked hand. Who acts: Heyóka. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 25

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He snatched from the embers a red-hot brand, And held it aloft in his naked hand.

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**Who acts:** Heyóka · **What happens:** snatch, hold · **To what, where:** red hot brand, embers, brand

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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 (Heyóka), 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:pg8122:7:25
# text = He snatched from the embers a red-hot brand, And held it aloft in his naked hand.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | past | Heyóka | a red hot brand |  | the embers |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent brand=Theme from ember=Source |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Heyóka *not said here* | brand |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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