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title: Brave Frenchmen! awake to the strife! --or you sleep in the forest f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Brave Frenchmen! awake to the strife! --or you sleep in the forest forever. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 9

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Brave Frenchmen! awake to the strife! --or you sleep in the forest forever.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sleep · **To what, where:** forest

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:13:9
# text = Brave Frenchmen! awake to the strife! --or you sleep in the forest forever.
1	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Frenchmen	frenchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | you |  |  | the forest |  | forever *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |

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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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