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title: Then the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè stood Alone in the moon-lit s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè stood Alone in the moon-lit solitude, And she was silent and he was grave. " Who acts: chief, 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 47

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Then the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè stood Alone in the moon-lit solitude, And she was silent and he was grave. "

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**Who acts:** chief, burning · **What happens:** stand, lit, be · **To what, where:** lit solitude

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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 (chief, 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:pg8122:7:47
# text = Then the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè stood Alone in the moon-lit solitude, And she was silent and he was grave. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè |  |  | the lit solitude | then | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location |
| 2 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moon *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | chief |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | burning |  |  |  |  | grave *property* | tree rules |

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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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