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title: The spirits the words of the brave fulfill,-- Wakâwa sleeps on the s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirits the words of the brave fulfill,-- Wakâwa sleeps on the sacred hill, And Wakínyan Tânka, his son, is chief. Who acts: Wakâwa, Wakínyan. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 101

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The spirits the words of the brave fulfill,-- Wakâwa sleeps on the sacred hill, And Wakínyan Tânka, his son, is chief.

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**Who acts:** Wakâwa, Wakínyan · **What happens:** sleep, be, word · **To what, where:** sacred hill, words, brave fulfill

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wakâwa, Wakínyan), 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:pg8122:8:101
# text = The spirits the words of the brave fulfill,-- Wakâwa sleeps on the sacred hill, And Wakínyan Tânka, his son, is chief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fulfill	fulfill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	Wakínyan	Wakínyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	Tânka	Tânka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | Wakâwa |  |  | the sacred hill |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Wakínyan |  |  |  |  | chief *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the brave fulfill |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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