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title: But again from the dead will the spirit rise, And flash his spears i… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But again from the dead will the spirit rise, And flash his spears in the northern skies. Who acts: you. 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 46

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But again from the dead will the spirit rise, And flash his spears in the northern skies.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** rise, flash · **To what, where:** dead spirit, spears

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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), 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:pg8122:7:46
# text = But again from the dead will the spirit rise, And flash his spears in the northern skies.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flash	flash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the dead spirit | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from spirit=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | burning's spears |  |  |  | in the northern skies | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Patient in sky=Topic |

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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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