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title: Ye shall walk as twin-brothers; in need, one shall forfeit his life… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye shall walk as twin-brothers; in need, one shall forfeit his life for another. Who acts: Ye, one. 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 81

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Ye shall walk as twin-brothers; in need, one shall forfeit his life for another.

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**Who acts:** Ye, one · **What happens:** walk, forfeit · **To what, where:** life

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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, one), 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:pg8122:11:81
# text = Ye shall walk as twin-brothers; in need, one shall forfeit his life for another.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	forfeit	forfeit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | shall | Ye |  |  |  |  | as twin brothers; need *advcl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forfeit** | shall | one | man's life |  |  |  | for another | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=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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