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title: When Wakínyan [32] flashed and thundered, when Unktéhee raved and ro… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When Wakínyan [32] flashed and thundered, when Unktéhee raved and roared, All but brave Wanâta wondered, and the gods with fear implored. Who acts: Wakínyan, Unktéhee, brave Wanâta, gods. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 3

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When Wakínyan \[32\] flashed and thundered, when Unktéhee raved and roared, All but brave Wanâta wondered, and the gods with fear implored.

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**Who acts:** Wakínyan, Unktéhee, brave Wanâta, gods · **What happens:** flash, thunder, rave, roar, wonder, implore · **To what, where:** All

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wakínyan, Unktéhee, brave Wanâta, gods), 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:pg8122:17:3
# text = When Wakínyan [32] flashed and thundered, when Unktéhee raved and roared, All but brave Wanâta wondered, and the gods with fear implored.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	Wakínyan	Wakínyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	raved	rave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	implored	implore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past | Wakínyan |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **thunder** | past | Wakínyan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rave** *speech: other* | past | Unktéhee |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **roar** | past | Unktéhee *not said here* | All |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | brave Wanâta |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **implore** | participle | the gods with fear |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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