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title: But she heard a warrior's stealthy tread, And the tall Wakâwa appear… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But she heard a warrior's stealthy tread, And the tall Wakâwa appeared, and said-- "Is Wiwâstè afraid of the spirit dread That fires the sky in the fatal north? Who acts: Wiwâstè, tall Wakâwa, That, warrior. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 41

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But she heard a warrior's stealthy tread, And the tall Wakâwa appeared, and said-- "Is Wiwâstè afraid of the spirit dread That fires the sky in the fatal north?

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, tall Wakâwa, That, warrior · **What happens:** hear, appear, say, be, fire, tread · **To what, where:** stealthy tread, sky, fatal north · **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 (Wiwâstè, tall Wakâwa, That, warrior), 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:pg8122:7:41
# text = But she heard a warrior's stealthy tread, And the tall Wakâwa appeared, and said-- "Is Wiwâstè afraid of the spirit dread That fires the sky in the fatal north?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fires	fire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hear** | past | Wiwâstè | a warrior's stealthy tread |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tread=Stimulus |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the tall Wakâwa |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Wiwâstè *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the spirit dread; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** *in a quote* | present | That | the sky |  | the fatal north |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sky=Theme in north=Destination |
| 6 | **tread** |  | a warrior |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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