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title: He promised to come with the robin in May, With the bridal gifts for… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He promised to come with the robin in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; And the fair Wiwâstè was happy-hearted, For Wakâwa promised the brave Chaskè. Who acts: cheek, fair Wiwâstè, Wakâwa. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant'
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 140

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He promised to come with the robin in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; And the fair Wiwâstè was happy-hearted, For Wakâwa promised the brave Chaskè.

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**Who acts:** cheek, fair Wiwâstè, Wakâwa · **What happens:** promise, come, be · **To what, where:** brave Chaskè

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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 (cheek, fair Wiwâstè, Wakâwa), 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:pg8122:7:140
# text = He promised to come with the robin in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; And the fair Wiwâstè was happy-hearted, For Wakâwa promised the brave Chaskè.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | cheek |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cheek *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the robin in May; with the bridal gifts for the bridal day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fair Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Wakâwa |  | the brave Chaskè |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent chaskè=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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