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title: Is it true?--will the spirits of kinsmen come And bid the bones of t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it true?--will the spirits of kinsmen come And bid the bones of the brave arise?" Who acts: break, spirits. 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 71

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Is it true?--will the spirits of kinsmen come And bid the bones of the brave arise?"

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**Who acts:** break, spirits · **What happens:** be, come, bid · **To what, where:** bones

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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 (break, spirits), 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:pg8122:8:71
# text = Is it true?--will the spirits of kinsmen come And bid the bones of the brave arise?"
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	arise	arise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | break |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | future | the spirits of kinsmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bid** | past | the spirits of kinsmen *not said here* | the bones of the brave arise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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