--- title: The son of Chief Wazí-kuté guides the White Chief afar on his journe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: The son of Chief Wazí-kuté guides the White Chief afar on his journey; Nor long on the Tonka Medé [b] --on the breast of the blue, bounding billows-- Shall the bark of the Frenchman delay, but his pathway shall kindle behind him." Who acts: son, pathway, chief. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, pathway, chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:12:25 # text = The son of Chief Wazí-kuté guides the White Chief afar on his journey; Nor long on the Tonka Medé [b] --on the breast of the blue, bounding billows-- Shall the bark of the Frenchman delay, but his pathway shall kindle behind him." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 Wazí Wazí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 kuté kuté NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 guides guide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 White White PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 afar afar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Nor Nor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Tonka Tonka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Medé Medé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 b b NUM LS _ 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 bounding bound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Shall Shall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Frenchman frenchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 pathway pathway NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 kindle kindle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 50 behind behind ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guide** | present | the son of Chief | the Chief afar | | chief's journey | | on the breast of the blue bounding billows; long *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent afar=Theme on breast=Destination | | 2 | **bound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **kindle** | shall | chief's pathway | | | | | behind chief | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **journey** | | chief | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/26/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)