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title: And then with her round, brown arms she pressed His phantom form to… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And then with her round, brown arms she pressed His phantom form to her throbbing breast, And whispered the name, in her happy sleep, Of her Hóhé hunter so fair and far. Who acts: Wiwâstè, lover. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Danc
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 69

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And then with her round, brown arms she pressed His phantom form to her throbbing breast, And whispered the name, in her happy sleep, Of her Hóhé hunter so fair and far.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, lover · **What happens:** press, whisper, form, sleep · **To what, where:** phantom form, name, happy sleep

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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 (Wiwâstè, lover), 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:pg8122:7:69
# text = And then with her round, brown arms she pressed His phantom form to her throbbing breast, And whispered the name, in her happy sleep, Of her Hóhé hunter so fair and far.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	phantom	phantom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	throbbing	throbbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | Wiwâstè | lover's phantom form |  |  | then | with Wiwâstè's round brown arms; to Wiwâstè's throbbing breast | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Wiwâstè *not said here* | the name |  | Wiwâstè's happy sleep |  | of Wiwâstè's Hóhé hunter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 3 | **form** |  | lover |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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