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title: "My father," she said, and her voice was filial and full of compassi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: "My father," she said, and her voice was filial and full of compassion, "Would the heart of Ta-té-psin rejoice at the death of Winona, his daughter? Who acts: father, voice, filial, Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 81

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"My father," she said, and her voice was filial and full of compassion, "Would the heart of Ta-té-psin rejoice at the death of Winona, his daughter?

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**Who acts:** father, voice, filial, Winona · **What happens:** say, be, rejoice, die · **To what, where:** death · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, voice, filial, Winona), 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:pg8122:13:81
# text = "My father," she said, and her voice was filial and full of compassion, "Would the heart of Ta-té-psin rejoice at the death of Winona, his daughter?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	filial	filial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
29	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | My father |  |  |  |  | Winona *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | Winona's voice |  |  |  |  | the heart of Ta té psin *conj*; filial *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Winona's voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of compassion | tree rules |
| 4 | **rejoice** *in a quote* | present | filial and the heart of Ta té psin |  |  | the death of Winona |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* |  | Winona |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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