--- title: Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; Kah-wéen, nee-zhéka kè-diaus-âi, Ke-gâh nau… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; Kah-wéen, nee-zhéka kè-diaus-âi, Ke-gâh nau-wâi, ne-mé-go s'wéen, Ne-bâun, ne-bâun, ne-dâun-is-âis, Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; Who acts: we, zhéka, Ke, Wâ wa. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, zhéka, Ke, Wâ wa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:18:19 # text = Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; Kah-wéen, nee-zhéka kè-diaus-âi, Ke-gâh nau-wâi, ne-mé-go s'wéen, Ne-bâun, ne-bâun, ne-dâun-is-âis, Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; 1 Wâ Wâ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 wâ wâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 wâ wâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 yeà yeà NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Kah Kah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 wéen wéen NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 zhéka zhéka X FW Foreign=Yes 26 nsubj _ _ 22 kè kè NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 diaus diaus NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 âi âi NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 Ke Ke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 gâh gâh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 nau nau NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 wâi wâi NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 ne ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 mé mé NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 40 s'wéen s'wéen NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 Ne Ne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 bâun bâun NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 ne ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 bâun bâun NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 ne ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 dâun dâun NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 âis âis NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 58 Wâ Wâ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 wâ wâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 63 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 66 wâ wâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 70 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 70 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 yeà yeà NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **yeà** | | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **âi** | | zhéka | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wâi** | | Ke | | | | | ne mé *appos* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | Wâ wa and wâ wa and wâ yeà | s'wéen and Ne bâun and ne bâun and âis and wâ wa and wâ yeà | | | | Kah wéen and nee diaus âi and gâh nau wâi *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location s'wéen=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | ne dâun | âis | | | | Wâ wa *appos* | tree rules | | 6 | **yeà** | | we | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/20/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)