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title: In the Tee [19] of the Council the Virgins light The Virgin-fire [20… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Tee [19] of the Council the Virgins light The Virgin-fire [20] for the feast to-night; For the Sons of Heyóka will celebrate The sacred dance to the giant great. Who acts: Virgins, Sons. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 2

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In the Tee \[19\] of the Council the Virgins light The Virgin-fire \[20\] for the feast to-night; For the Sons of Heyóka will celebrate The sacred dance to the giant great.

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**Who acts:** Virgins, Sons · **What happens:** light, celebrate · **To what, where:** Virgin fire, Tee, sacred dance

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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 (Virgins, Sons), 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:pg8122:7:2
# text = In the Tee [19] of the Council the Virgins light The Virgin-fire [20] for the feast to-night; For the Sons of Heyóka will celebrate The sacred dance to the giant great.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	light	light	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	For	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Sons	Son	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | present | the Virgins | the Virgin fire |  | the Tee of the Council | night | for the feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for feast=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **celebrate** | future | the Sons of Heyóka | the sacred dance |  |  |  | to the giant great | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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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