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title: The White Chief is blameless," she said, "but the heart of Winona wi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The White Chief is blameless," she said, "but the heart of Winona will follow Wherever thy footsteps may lead, O blue-eyed brave Chief of the white men. Who acts: White Chief, Tanké, heart, footsteps. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 14

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The White Chief is blameless," she said, "but the heart of Winona will follow Wherever thy footsteps may lead, O blue-eyed brave Chief of the white men.

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**Who acts:** White Chief, Tanké, heart, footsteps · **What happens:** be, say, follow, lead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (White Chief, Tanké, heart, footsteps), 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:pg8122:12:14
# text = The White Chief is blameless," she said, "but the heart of Winona will follow Wherever thy footsteps may lead, O blue-eyed brave Chief of the white men.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	blameless	blameless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	30	case	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the White Chief |  |  |  |  | blameless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Tanké |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | future | the heart of Winona |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | may | thy footsteps |  |  |  |  | of eyed brave Chief of the white men; wherever *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent of chief=Destination |

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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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