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title: You have pledged me as wife to the tall Red Cloud; You will take the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: You have pledged me as wife to the tall Red Cloud; You will take the gifts of the warrior proud; But I, Wakâwa,--I answer--never! Who acts: You, I. 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 
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 59

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You have pledged me as wife to the tall Red Cloud; You will take the gifts of the warrior proud; But I, Wakâwa,--I answer--never!

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** pledge, take, not answer, gift · **To what, where:** me, gifts, warrior

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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, I), 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:pg8122:7:59
# text = You have pledged me as wife to the tall Red Cloud; You will take the gifts of the warrior proud; But I, Wakâwa,--I answer--never!
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pledge** | present · perfect | You | me |  |  |  | as wife to the tall Red Cloud | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | future | You | the gifts of the warrior |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gift** |  |  | the warrior |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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