--- title: [a] A son of Unktéhee is he, --the Chief of the crafty magicians; Th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: [a] A son of Unktéhee is he, --the Chief of the crafty magicians; They have plotted thy death; I foresee, and thy trail, it is red in the forest; Beware of Tamdóka,--beware. Who acts: son, magicians, I, trail. 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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, magicians, I, trail), 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:pg8122:12:34 # text = [a] A son of Unktéhee is he, --the Chief of the crafty magicians; They have plotted thy death; I foresee, and thy trail, it is red in the forest; Beware of Tamdóka,--beware. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Unktéhee Unktéhee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 crafty crafty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 magicians magician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 plotted plot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 22 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 foresee foresee VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Beware beware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Tamdóka Tamdóka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 beware beware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a son of Unktéhee | the Chief | | | | of the crafty magicians | tree rules | | 2 | **plot** | present · perfect | magicians *= magician* | thy death | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | | 3 | **foresee** | present | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | thy trail | | | the forest | | red *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **beware** | infinitive | magicians *= magician* *not said here* | | | | | of Tamdóka | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **beware** | infinitive | magicians *= magician* *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **die** | | thy | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/34/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)