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title: The strongest warriors and bravest fear it The burning spears are an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The strongest warriors and bravest fear it The burning spears are an evil omen; They threaten the wrath of a wicked woman, Or a treacherous foe; but my warriors brave, When danger nears, or the foe appears, Are a cloud of arrows,--a grove of spears." Who acts: bravest fear, spears, danger, foe. A se
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 49

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The strongest warriors and bravest fear it The burning spears are an evil omen; They threaten the wrath of a wicked woman, Or a treacherous foe; but my warriors brave, When danger nears, or the foe appears, Are a cloud of arrows,--a grove of spears."

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**Who acts:** bravest fear, spears, danger, foe, strongest warriors · **What happens:** be, threaten, near, appear · **To what, where:** evil omen, wrath, cloud

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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 (bravest fear, spears, danger, foe), 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:pg8122:7:49
# text = The strongest warriors and bravest fear it The burning spears are an evil omen; They threaten the wrath of a wicked woman, Or a treacherous foe; but my warriors brave, When danger nears, or the foe appears, Are a cloud of arrows,--a grove of spears."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
5	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	threaten	threaten	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	nears	near	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
44	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bravest fear | a evil omen |  |  |  | fear *nsubj*; the burning spears *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **threaten** | present | spears *= spear* | the wrath of a wicked woman or a treacherous foe |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wrath=Experiencer |
| 3 | **near** | present | danger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | present | the foe |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the strongest warriors and a evil omen | a cloud and a grove of spears |  |  |  | of arrows; a grove of spears *conj* | 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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