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title: Tú-way ne ktáy snee e-yáy-chen e-wáh chày. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Tú-way ne ktáy snee e-yáy-chen e-wáh chày. Who acts: way ne ktáy. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 87

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Tú-way ne ktáy snee e-yáy-chen e-wáh chày.

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**Who acts:** way ne ktáy · **What happens:** snee · **To what, where:** e-yáy-chen

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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 (way ne ktáy), 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:pg8122:14:87
# text = Tú-way ne ktáy snee e-yáy-chen e-wáh chày.
1	Tú	Tú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ktáy	ktáy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	snee	snee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	e-yáy-chen	e-yáy-chen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	e-wáh	e-wáh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chày	chày	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snee** | infinitive | way ne ktáy | e-yáy-chen |  |  |  | e-wáh chày *obj* | tree rules |

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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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