--- title: He and "I-tó-ka-ga Wi-câs-ta"--the spirit or god of the South (liter… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: He and "I-tó-ka-ga Wi-câs-ta"--the spirit or god of the South (literally the "South Man"), are inveterate enemies, and always on the war-path against each other. Who acts: I, ga, spirit. 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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 (I, ga, spirit), 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:pg8122:20:5 # text = He and "I-tó-ka-ga Wi-câs-ta"--the spirit or god of the South (literally the "South Man"), are inveterate enemies, and always on the war-path against each other. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 tó tó NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ka ka NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ga ga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 Wi Wi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 câs câs NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 literally literally ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 inveterate inveterate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 44 advmod _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 45 against against ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 44 nmod _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ka** *in a quote* | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ta** *in a quote* | | ga | tó ka *not said here* | | | | the spirit or god of the South *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | spirit | inveterate enemies and the war path against each | | | | the war path against each *conj* | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/6/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/)