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title: They say the spirit of Anpetu Sapa sits upon that island at night an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They say the spirit of Anpetu Sapa sits upon that island at night and pours forth her sorrow in song. Who acts: spirits, spirit, Island. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 12

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They say the spirit of Anpetu Sapa sits upon that island at night and pours forth her sorrow in song.

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**Who acts:** spirits, spirit, Island · **What happens:** say, sit, pour, sorrow · **To what, where:** island, sorrow, song · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, spirit, Island), 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:pg8122:16:12
# text = They say the spirit of Anpetu Sapa sits upon that island at night and pours forth her sorrow in song.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Anpetu	Anpetu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Sapa	Sapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pours	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the spirit of Anpetu |  |  | that island | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon island=Location |
| 3 | **pour** | present | the spirit of Anpetu *not said here* | Island's sorrow |  | song |  | forth *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient |
| 4 | **sorrow** |  | Island |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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