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title: But wary and armed to the teeth are the resolute Frenchmen and ready… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But wary and armed to the teeth are the resolute Frenchmen and ready, If need be, to grapple with death, and to die hand to hand in the desert. Who acts: need. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 100

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But wary and armed to the teeth are the resolute Frenchmen and ready, If need be, to grapple with death, and to die hand to hand in the desert.

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**Who acts:** need · **What happens:** be, die, hand · **To what, where:** resolute Frenchmen, hand, desert

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need), 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:pg8122:12:101
# text = But wary and armed to the teeth are the resolute Frenchmen and ready, If need be, to grapple with death, and to die hand to hand in the desert.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	resolute	resolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	grapple	grapple	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the resolute Frenchmen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | need |  |  |  |  | with death; grapple *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | need *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **hand** | to-infinitive | need *not said here* |  |  | the desert |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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