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title: Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè, And each for the scalp o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè, And each for the scalp of a warrior slain, When down on his camp from the northern plain, With their murder cries rode the bloody Cree. Who acts: Five feathers, murder cries, feathers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyó
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 96

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Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè, And each for the scalp of a warrior slain, When down on his camp from the northern plain, With their murder cries rode the bloody Cree.

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**Who acts:** Five feathers, murder cries, feathers · **What happens:** wear, ride, cry · **To what, where:** northern plain, bloody Cree

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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 (Five feathers, murder cries, feathers), 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:pg8122:7:96
# text = Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè, And each for the scalp of a warrior slain, When down on his camp from the northern plain, With their murder cries rode the bloody Cree.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Wanmdeè	Wanmdeè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Cree	Cree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Five feathers |  |  | the northern plain |  | of the great Wanmdeè; for each scalp of a warrior slain; heart *nsubj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of wanmdeè=Source |
| 2 | **ride** | past | feathers's murder cries | the bloody Cree |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cree=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** |  | feathers *= feather* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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