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title: The Chief will return, he is bold, and he carries the fire of Wakíny… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chief will return, he is bold, and he carries the fire of Wakínyan; To our people the truth will be told, and Tamdóka will hide like a coward." Who acts: Chief, heart, Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 97

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The Chief will return, he is bold, and he carries the fire of Wakínyan; To our people the truth will be told, and Tamdóka will hide like a coward."

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**Who acts:** Chief, heart, Tamdóka · **What happens:** return, be, carry, tell, hide, fire · **To what, where:** fire, truth, people, Wakínyan · **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 (Chief, heart, Tamdóka), 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:pg8122:13:97
# text = The Chief will return, he is bold, and he carries the fire of Wakínyan; To our people the truth will be told, and Tamdóka will hide like a coward."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Wakínyan	Wakínyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	To	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | future | the Chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | heart |  |  |  |  | bold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | present | heart | the fire of Wakínyan |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future · passive |  | the truth | our people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to people=Recipient |
| 5 | **hide** | future | Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | like a coward | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fire** |  |  | Wakínyan |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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