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title: Will the warrior sit like a girl bereft, When fairer and truer than… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Will the warrior sit like a girl bereft, When fairer and truer than she are left That love Red Cloud as they love their life? Who acts: warrior, That, warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 118

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Will the warrior sit like a girl bereft, When fairer and truer than she are left That love Red Cloud as they love their life?

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**Who acts:** warrior, That, warriors · **What happens:** sit, leave, love · **To what, where:** bird, Red Cloud, life

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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 (warrior, That, warriors), 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:pg8122:7:118
# text = Will the warrior sit like a girl bereft, When fairer and truer than she are left That love Red Cloud as they love their life?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	bereft	bereft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
18	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
20	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | future | the warrior |  |  |  |  | like a girl; bereft *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | present · passive |  | bird |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | present | That | Red Cloud |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | present | warriors *= warrior* | warriors's life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |

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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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