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title: Ye are men that I choose for my own; ye shall be as a strong band of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye are men that I choose for my own; ye shall be as a strong band of brothers, Now I give you the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits. Who acts: Ye, I. 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 79

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Ye are men that I choose for my own; ye shall be as a strong band of brothers, Now I give you the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits.

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**Who acts:** Ye, I · **What happens:** be, choose, give · **To what, where:** men, magical bone, you

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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 (Ye, I), 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:pg8122:11:79
# text = Ye are men that I choose for my own; ye shall be as a strong band of brothers, Now I give you the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ye | men and a strong band |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | present | I | men and a strong band |  |  |  | for my own | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for own=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | as a strong band; of brothers | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | present | I | the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits | you |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=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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