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title: And the word of the warrior is a sacred by law; For the Virgins' Fea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And the word of the warrior is a sacred by law; For the Virgins' Feast is a sacred thing. Who acts: word, Feast. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 14

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And the word of the warrior is a sacred by law; For the Virgins' Feast is a sacred thing.

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**Who acts:** word, Feast · **What happens:** be, word · **To what, where:** warrior

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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 (word, Feast), 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:pg8122:8:14
# text = And the word of the warrior is a sacred by law; For the Virgins' Feast is a sacred thing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	For	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Virgins	virgin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the word of the warrior |  |  |  |  | by law; sacred *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Feast |  |  |  |  | for the Virgins's sacred thing; the Virgins *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | the warrior |  |  |  |  | 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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