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title: Let him think of Taté [c] and beware, ere he stake his last robe on… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him think of Taté [c] and beware, ere he stake his last robe on the trial." " Who acts: you, Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 33

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Let him think of Taté \[c\] and beware, ere he stake his last robe on the trial." "

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**Who acts:** you, Tamdóka · **What happens:** let, think, beware, ere, stake · **To what, where:** Tamdóka, last robe, trial

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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 (you, Tamdóka), 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:pg8122:11:33
# text = Let him think of Taté [c] and beware, ere he stake his last robe on the trial." "
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Taté	Taté	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ere	ere	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stake	stake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Tamdóka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Taté | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ere** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stake** | infinitive | Tamdóka | Tamdóka's last robe |  | the trial |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=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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