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title: A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's d… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's dappled form; In peace, like the breeze from the summer seas; In war, like the roar of the mountain storm. Who acts: red fawn, mountain storm. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--th
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 98

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A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's dappled form; In peace, like the breeze from the summer seas; In war, like the roar of the mountain storm.

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**Who acts:** red fawn, mountain storm · **What happens:** dapple, form, roar · **To what, where:** mountain bear

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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 (red fawn, mountain storm), 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:pg8122:7:98
# text = A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's dappled form; In peace, like the breeze from the summer seas; In war, like the roar of the mountain storm.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	To	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	dappled	dapple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	In	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	In	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dapple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **form** |  | the red fawn |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **roar** |  | the mountain storm |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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