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title: Their wee ones climbed on the father's knee, And played with his plu… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Their wee ones climbed on the father's knee, And played with his plumes of the great Wanmdeè. Who acts: wee ones. 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 62

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Their wee ones climbed on the father's knee, And played with his plumes of the great Wanmdeè.

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**Who acts:** wee ones · **What happens:** climb, play · **To what, where:** knee

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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 (wee ones), 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:pg8122:9:62
# text = Their wee ones climbed on the father's knee, And played with his plumes of the great Wanmdeè.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Wanmdeè	Wanmdeè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | participle | tees's wee ones |  |  | the father's knee |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knee=Trajectory |
| 2 | **play** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with Chaskè's plumes of the great Wanmdeè | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plume=Theme |

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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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