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title: But the May-days pass and the brave Chaskè-- O, why does the lover s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But the May-days pass and the brave Chaskè-- O, why does the lover so long delay? Who acts: May days. 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 149

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But the May-days pass and the brave Chaskè-- O, why does the lover so long delay?

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**Who acts:** May days · **What happens:** pass, do · **To what, where:** lover

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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 (May days), 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:pg8122:7:149
# text = But the May-days pass and the brave Chaskè-- O, why does the lover so long delay?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | the May days |  |  |  |  | the brave Chaskè *conj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | the May days *not said here* | the lover |  |  |  | long delay *obj* | 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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