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title: And death to the lips that betray is the doom of the swarthy avenger… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And death to the lips that betray is the doom of the swarthy avengers, And the son of tall Wazí-kuté was the chief of the mystical order. Who acts: lips, death, son. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 15

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And death to the lips that betray is the doom of the swarthy avengers, And the son of tall Wazí-kuté was the chief of the mystical order.

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**Who acts:** lips, death, son · **What happens:** betray, be · **To what, where:** doom, chief

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips, death, son), 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:pg8122:11:15
# text = And death to the lips that betray is the doom of the swarthy avengers, And the son of tall Wazí-kuté was the chief of the mystical order.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	betray	betray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	avengers	avenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	Wazí	Wazí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	kuté	kuté	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | present | the lips |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | death to the lips | the doom and the chief |  |  |  | of the swarthy avengers | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the son of tall Wazí kuté | the chief |  |  |  | of the mystical order | 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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