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title: Right glad is Wakâwa his friend to hail, And Wiwâstè will find her a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Right glad is Wakâwa his friend to hail, And Wiwâstè will find her a way to woo. Who acts: Wiwâstè. 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 93

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Right glad is Wakâwa his friend to hail, And Wiwâstè will find her a way to woo.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè · **What happens:** be, hail, find, woo · **To what, where:** glad Wakâwa friend, friend

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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), 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:pg8122:7:93
# text = Right glad is Wakâwa his friend to hail, And Wiwâstè will find her a way to woo.
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hail	hail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Chaskè's glad Wakâwa friend |  |  |  | Chaskè *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hail** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **find** | future | Wiwâstè | friend |  |  |  | a way *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme way=Attribute |
| 4 | **woo** | to-infinitive | Wiwâstè *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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