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title: With the precious gift of his priceless manna God fed his fainting a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: With the precious gift of his priceless manna God fed his fainting and famished child. Who acts: God. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 20

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With the precious gift of his priceless manna God fed his fainting and famished child.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** feed, famish, gift · **To what, where:** fainting, child, priceless manna

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg8122:9:20
# text = With the precious gift of his priceless manna God fed his fainting and famished child.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	priceless	priceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	manna	manna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fainting	fainting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	famished	famish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | God | god's fainting |  |  |  | with the precious gift of cry's priceless manna | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fainting=Recipient |
| 2 | **famish** | past | God *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gift** |  |  | cry's priceless manna |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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