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title: Mâh-pí-ya Dúta, they scorn your love, But the false chief covets the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Mâh-pí-ya Dúta, they scorn your love, But the false chief covets the warrior's gifts. Who acts: lips, false chief, your, warrior. 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 115

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Mâh-pí-ya Dúta, they scorn your love, But the false chief covets the warrior's gifts.

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**Who acts:** lips, false chief, your, warrior · **What happens:** scorn, covet, love, gift · **To what, where:** love, gifts, Mâh

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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 (lips, false chief, your, warrior), 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:pg8122:7:115
# text = Mâh-pí-ya Dúta, they scorn your love, But the false chief covets the warrior's gifts.
1	Mâh	Mâh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pí	pí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Dúta	Dúta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	scorn	scorn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	covets	covet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorn** | present | lips *= lip* | your love |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme |
| 2 | **covet** | present | the false chief | the warrior's gifts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme |
| 4 | **love** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **gift** |  | the warrior |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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