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title: Spake the Chief of Isántees, --"A feast will await the return of my… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Spake the Chief of Isántees, --"A feast will await the return of my brother In peace rose the sun in the East, in peace in the West he descended. Who acts: feast, Spake Chief, peace, brother. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with i
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 46

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Spake the Chief of Isántees, --"A feast will await the return of my brother In peace rose the sun in the East, in peace in the West he descended.

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**Who acts:** feast, Spake Chief, peace, brother · **What happens:** await, rise, descend, return · **To what, where:** return, peace, sun, East

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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 (feast, Spake Chief, peace, brother), 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:pg8122:12:47
# text = Spake the Chief of Isántees, --"A feast will await the return of my brother In peace rose the sun in the East, in peace in the West he descended.
1	Spake	speak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Isántees	Isántee	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **await** *in a quote* | future | a feast | the return of my brother |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** *in a quote* | past | the Spake Chief of Isántees | the sun |  | the East |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme |
| 3 | **descend** *in a quote* | past | peace in the West |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* |  | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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