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title: Wiwâstè is pure as the faun unborn; Lead me back to the feast, or Wi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiwâstè is pure as the faun unborn; Lead me back to the feast, or Wiwâstè dies!" Who acts: Wiwâstè. 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 26

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Wiwâstè is pure as the faun unborn; Lead me back to the feast, or Wiwâstè dies!"

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè · **What happens:** be, lead, die · **To what, where:** me

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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 (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:pg8122:8:26
# text = Wiwâstè is pure as the faun unborn; Lead me back to the feast, or Wiwâstè dies!"
1	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	faun	faun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | as the faun; pure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | present | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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