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title: She will sit in the teepee the live-long day, And laugh with her lov… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: She will sit in the teepee the live-long day, And laugh with her lover--the brave Hóhé. Who acts: Wiwâstè. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 107

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She will sit in the teepee the live-long day, And laugh with her lover--the brave Hóhé.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè · **What happens:** sit, laugh · **To what, where:** teepee

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiwâstè), 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:pg8122:7:107
# text = She will sit in the teepee the live-long day, And laugh with her lover--the brave Hóhé.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | future | Wiwâstè |  |  | the teepee | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in teepee=Location |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | Wiwâstè *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Wiwâstè's lover | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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