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title: They cease, they sit, and the curling smoke Ascends again from their… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They cease, they sit, and the curling smoke Ascends again from their polished pipes, And upward curls from their swarthy lips To the God whose favor their hearts invoke. Who acts: notes, curling smoke, upward curls. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [1
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 12

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They cease, they sit, and the curling smoke Ascends again from their polished pipes, And upward curls from their swarthy lips To the God whose favor their hearts invoke.

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**Who acts:** notes, curling smoke, upward curls · **What happens:** cease, sit, ascend, polish, invoke · **To what, where:** polished pipes, swarthy lips

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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 (notes, curling smoke, upward curls), 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:pg8122:7:12
# text = They cease, they sit, and the curling smoke Ascends again from their polished pipes, And upward curls from their swarthy lips To the God whose favor their hearts invoke.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cease	cease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Ascends	ascend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
19	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
25	To	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	invoke	invoke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | present | notes *= note* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sit** | present | notes *= note* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ascend** | present | the curling smoke |  |  | notes's polished pipes | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pipe=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **invoke** | present | upward curls |  |  | notes's swarthy lips to the God |  | favor *nsubj*; notes's hearts *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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