--- title: With his battle spear and his bow and quiver, And eagle plumes in hi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: With his battle spear and his bow and quiver, And eagle plumes in his ebon hair, The chief Wakâwa himself is there; And round the feast in the Sacred Ring, [48] Sit his weaponed warriors witnessing. Who acts: chief Wakâwa. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/) / 2 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 2 With his battle spear and his bow and quiver, And eagle plumes in his ebon hair, The chief Wakâwa himself is there; And round the feast in the Sacred Ring, \[48\] Sit his weaponed warriors witnessing. **Who acts:** chief Wakâwa · **What happens:** be, sit, weapon, witness · **To what, where:** weaponed warriors, Sacred Ring 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 (chief Wakâwa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:8:2 # text = With his battle spear and his bow and quiver, And eagle plumes in his ebon hair, The chief Wakâwa himself is there; And round the feast in the Sacred Ring, [48] Sit his weaponed warriors witnessing. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 quiver quiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 plumes plume NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ebon ebon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Wakâwa Wakâwa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 27 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Ring Ring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 48 48 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 38 Sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 weaponed weapon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 witnessing witness VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the chief Wakâwa sun | | | | | with sun's battle spear and sun's bow and quiver and eagle plumes in sun's ebon hair; there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | infinitive | the chief Wakâwa sun *not said here* | feast's weaponed warriors | | the Sacred Ring | | round the feast | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme in ring=Location | | 3 | **weapon** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **witness** | gerund | the chief Wakâwa sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/3/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/)