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title: Then tall Wakâwa arose and said: "Brave warriors, listen, and give d… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then tall Wakâwa arose and said: "Brave warriors, listen, and give due heed. Who acts: tall Wakâwa, Brave warriors. 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 13

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Then tall Wakâwa arose and said: "Brave warriors, listen, and give due heed.

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**Who acts:** tall Wakâwa, Brave warriors · **What happens:** arise, say, listen, give · **To what, where:** due heed · **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 (tall Wakâwa, Brave 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:pg8122:7:13
# text = Then tall Wakâwa arose and said: "Brave warriors, listen, and give due heed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | tall Wakâwa |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tall Wakâwa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Brave warriors *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brave warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | tall Wakâwa *not said here* | due heed |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |

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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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