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title: Remember a promise;--beware, --let the word of a warrior be sacred. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Remember a promise;--beware, --let the word of a warrior be sacred. Who acts: you, word. 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 86

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Remember a promise;--beware, --let the word of a warrior be sacred.

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**Who acts:** you, word · **What happens:** remember, beware, let, be, word · **To what, where:** promise, word, warrior

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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, word), 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:pg8122:11:86
# text = Remember a promise;--beware, --let the word of a warrior be sacred.
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
16	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | a promise |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | the word of a warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | the word of a warrior *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sacred *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | a warrior |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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