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title: And trust not the chief with the smiling eyes; His tongue is swift,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And trust not the chief with the smiling eyes; His tongue is swift, but his words are lies; And the proud Mah-pí-ya will surely find That Wakâwa's promise is hollow wind. Who acts: you, tongue, words, proud pí ya. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 110

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And trust not the chief with the smiling eyes; His tongue is swift, but his words are lies; And the proud Mah-pí-ya will surely find That Wakâwa's promise is hollow wind.

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**Who acts:** you, tongue, words, proud pí ya, promise, cloud · **What happens:** not trust, smile, be, find, word, promise · **To what, where:** chief, lies, hollow wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, tongue, words, proud pí ya), 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:pg8122:7:110
# text = And trust not the chief with the smiling eyes; His tongue is swift, but his words are lies; And the proud Mah-pí-ya will surely find That Wakâwa's promise is hollow wind.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	Mah	Mah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	pí	pí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
33	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* | the chief |  |  |  | with the smiling eyes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient with eye=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | cloud's tongue |  |  |  |  | swift *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | cloud's words | lies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | future | the proud pí ya |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | that Wakâwa's promise | hollow wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  | cloud |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **promise** |  | that Wakâwa |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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