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title: Undaunted the braves of Wakâwa's band Jumped into the thicket with l… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Undaunted the braves of Wakâwa's band Jumped into the thicket with lance and knife, And grappled the Chippewas hand to hand; And foe with foe, in the deadly strife, Lay clutching the scalp of his foe and dead, With a tomahawk sunk in his ghastly head, Or his still heart sheathing a bloody blade. Who
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 95

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Undaunted the braves of Wakâwa's band Jumped into the thicket with lance and knife, And grappled the Chippewas hand to hand; And foe with foe, in the deadly strife, Lay clutching the scalp of his foe and dead, With a tomahawk sunk in his ghastly head, Or his still heart sheathing a bloody blade.

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**Who acts:** Undaunted braves, deadly strife, heart · **What happens:** jump, grapple, clutch, sink, sheath · **To what, where:** band, thicket, Chippewas hand, scalp, tomahawk, ghastly head

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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 (Undaunted braves, deadly strife, heart), 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:pg8122:8:95
# text = Undaunted the braves of Wakâwa's band Jumped into the thicket with lance and knife, And grappled the Chippewas hand to hand; And foe with foe, in the deadly strife, Lay clutching the scalp of his foe and dead, With a tomahawk sunk in his ghastly head, Or his still heart sheathing a bloody blade.
1	Undaunted	Undaunted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	Jumped	jump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grappled	grapple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Chippewas	Chippewas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	clutching	clutch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	With	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	tomahawk	tomahawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
48	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	still	still	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
58	sheathing	sheath	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	57	acl	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | participle |  | Wakâwa's band *not said here* |  |  |  | into the thicket with lance and knife *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into thicket=Result |
| 2 | **grapple** | past | the Undaunted braves of Wakâwa's band | the Chippewas hand |  |  |  | to hand; foe with foe and the deadly strife and a tomahawk or thicket's heart *parataxis* | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **clutch** | gerund | the deadly strife *not said here* | the scalp of thicket's foe |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme |
| 4 | **sink** | participle |  | a tomahawk *not said here* |  | thicket's ghastly head |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sheath** | gerund | thicket's heart *not said here* | a bloody blade |  |  |  |  | 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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