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title: O, why did the chief of the tall Hóhé His feet from Kapóza [6] so lo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: O, why did the chief of the tall Hóhé His feet from Kapóza [6] so long delay? 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 clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 61

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O, why did the chief of the tall Hóhé His feet from Kapóza \[6\] so long delay?

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**What happens:** do · **To what, where:** chief, Kapóza

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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: 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:pg8122:8:61
# text = O, why did the chief of the tall Hóhé His feet from Kapóza [6] so long delay?
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kapóza	Kapóza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the chief of the tall Hóhé |  | Kapóza |  | long delay *obl:unmarked*; Bright's feet *obj* | tree rules |

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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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