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title: Come forth Some evil threatens,--some danger nears, For the skies ar… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Come forth Some evil threatens,--some danger nears, For the skies are pierced with the burning spears." Who acts: you, evil, danger, burning. 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 eve
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 43

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Come forth Some evil threatens,--some danger nears, For the skies are pierced with the burning spears."

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**Who acts:** you, evil, danger, burning · **What happens:** come, threaten, near, pierce, spear · **To what, where:** skies

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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, evil, danger, burning), 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:pg8122:7:43
# text = Come forth Some evil threatens,--some danger nears, For the skies are pierced with the burning spears."
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	nears	near	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spears	spear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **threaten** | present | some evil |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **near** | present | some danger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pierce** | present · passive |  | the skies |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **spear** | present | the burning |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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