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title: Be happy, Micúnksee [29], the flames are gone,-- They flash no more… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Be happy, Micúnksee [29], the flames are gone,-- They flash no more in the Northern sky. Who acts: flames, lips. 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 62

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Be happy, Micúnksee \[29\], the flames are gone,-- They flash no more in the Northern sky.

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**Who acts:** flames, lips · **What happens:** be, flash · **To what, where:** more

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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 (flames, lips), 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:pg8122:7:62
# text = Be happy, Micúnksee [29], the flames are gone,-- They flash no more in the Northern sky.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Micúnksee	Micúnksee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flash	flash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Micúnksee *obl*; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the flames |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **flash** | present | lips *= lip* | more |  |  |  | in the Northern sky | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=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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