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title: Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy fat… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy father, And long will Winona rejoice that she heeded the words of Ta-té-psin. Who acts: long Winona, Winona, father. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 72

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Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy father, And long will Winona rejoice that she heeded the words of Ta-té-psin.

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**Who acts:** long Winona, Winona, father · **What happens:** rejoice, heed, wish, word · **To what, where:** words, Ta té psin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long Winona, Winona, father), 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:pg8122:13:72
# text = Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy father, And long will Winona rejoice that she heeded the words of Ta-té-psin.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	heeded	heed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **rejoice** | infinitive | long Winona |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heed** | past | Winona | the words of Ta té psin |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** |  | thy father |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | Ta té psin |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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