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title: Ah, soon shall the lips of men forget Wakâwa's name, and the mound o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, soon shall the lips of men forget Wakâwa's name, and the mound of stone Will speak of the dead to the winds alone, And the winds will whistle their mock-regret. Who acts: lips, mound, winds, Wakâwa. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., par
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 102

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Ah, soon shall the lips of men forget Wakâwa's name, and the mound of stone Will speak of the dead to the winds alone, And the winds will whistle their mock-regret.

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**Who acts:** lips, mound, winds, Wakâwa · **What happens:** forget, speak, whistle, name, regret · **To what, where:** name, mock regret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lips, mound, winds, Wakâwa), 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:pg8122:8:102
# text = Ah, soon shall the lips of men forget Wakâwa's name, and the mound of stone Will speak of the dead to the winds alone, And the winds will whistle their mock-regret.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	mock	mock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | the lips of men | Wakâwa's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | the mound of stone |  |  |  |  | of the dead; to the winds; alone *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wind=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **whistle** | future | the winds | lips's mock regret |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regret=Topic |
| 4 | **name** |  | Wakâwa |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **regret** |  | lips *= lip* |  |  |  |  |  | nom regret «feeling 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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