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description: O Christ of the White man," she prayed, "lead the feet of my brave to Kathága; Send a good spirit down to my aid, or the friend of the White Chief will perish." Who acts: Christ, friend. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its de
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 45

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O Christ of the White man," she prayed, "lead the feet of my brave to Kathága; Send a good spirit down to my aid, or the friend of the White Chief will perish."

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**Who acts:** Christ, friend · **What happens:** pray, lead, send, perish · **To what, where:** feet, good spirit, aid

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christ, friend), 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:pg8122:14:45
# text = O Christ of the White man," she prayed, "lead the feet of my brave to Kathága; Send a good spirit down to my aid, or the friend of the White Chief will perish."
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kathága	Kathága	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | past | Christ of the White man |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | present | Christ of the White man *not said here* | the feet of my brave to Kathága |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive |  | a good spirit |  | my aid |  | down *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme to aid=Destination |
| 4 | **perish** | future | the friend of the White Chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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