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title: To her happy lodge in the spirit-land She beckons Wiwâstè with shini… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To her happy lodge in the spirit-land She beckons Wiwâstè with shining hand.' Who acts: mother. 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 57

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To her happy lodge in the spirit-land She beckons Wiwâstè with shining hand.'

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** beckon, shine · **To what, where:** Wiwâstè, happy lodge

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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 (mother), 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:pg8122:7:57
# text = To her happy lodge in the spirit-land She beckons Wiwâstè with shining hand.'
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	beckons	beckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beckon** | present | mother | Wiwâstè | mother's happy lodge in the spirit land |  |  | with shining hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wiwâstè=Theme to lodge=Recipient |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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