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title: Nor chief nor daughter the shadow saw Of the crouching listener--Hâr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor chief nor daughter the shadow saw Of the crouching listener--Hârpstinà. Who acts: shadow. 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 67

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Nor chief nor daughter the shadow saw Of the crouching listener--Hârpstinà.

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**Who acts:** shadow · **What happens:** see, crouch · **To what, where:** daughter

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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 (shadow), 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:pg8122:7:67
# text = Nor chief nor daughter the shadow saw Of the crouching listener--Hârpstinà.
1	Nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	2	cc	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	listener	listener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the shadow | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  | of the crouching listener | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **crouch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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