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title: Let the warrior come to my lodge and smoke; He may bring the gifts;… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the warrior come to my lodge and smoke; He may bring the gifts; [25] but the timid doe May fly from the hunter and say him no." Who acts: you, warrior, smoke, timid doe. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependenc
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 35

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Let the warrior come to my lodge and smoke; He may bring the gifts; \[25\] but the timid doe May fly from the hunter and say him no."

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**Who acts:** you, warrior, smoke, timid doe · **What happens:** let, come, bring, fly, say · **To what, where:** warrior, lodge, gifts, hunter, smoke · **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 (you, warrior, smoke, timid doe), 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:pg8122:7:35
# text = Let the warrior come to my lodge and smoke; He may bring the gifts; [25] but the timid doe May fly from the hunter and say him no."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the warrior *not said here* |  |  | my lodge and smoke |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | may | smoke | the gifts |  |  |  | 25 *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | may | the timid doe |  |  | the hunter |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hunter=Trajectory |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | smoke |  |  |  | no. *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme no.=Manner |

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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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