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title: But what of the venomous Hârpstinà-- The serpent that tempted the pr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But what of the venomous Hârpstinà-- The serpent that tempted the proud Red Cloud, And kindled revenge in his savage soul? Who acts: serpent. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 119

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But what of the venomous Hârpstinà-- The serpent that tempted the proud Red Cloud, And kindled revenge in his savage soul?

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**Who acts:** serpent · **What happens:** tempt, kindle · **To what, where:** proud Red Cloud, revenge, savage soul

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent), 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:pg8122:8:119
# text = But what of the venomous Hârpstinà-- The serpent that tempted the proud Red Cloud, And kindled revenge in his savage soul?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tempt** | past | the serpent |  | the proud Red Cloud |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Recipient |
| 2 | **kindle** | past | the serpent *not said here* | revenge |  | Cloud's savage soul |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition revenge=Patient |

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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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