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title: Let my warriors the wish of their chief fulfill; For my fathers slee… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my warriors the wish of their chief fulfill; For my fathers sleep in the sacred ground. Who acts: you, wish, fathers, chief. 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 82

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Let my warriors the wish of their chief fulfill; For my fathers sleep in the sacred ground.

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**Who acts:** you, wish, fathers, chief · **What happens:** let, fulfill, sleep, wish · **To what, where:** warriors, sacred ground

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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 (you, wish, fathers, chief), 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:pg8122:8:82
# text = Let my warriors the wish of their chief fulfill; For my fathers sleep in the sacred ground.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	fulfill	fulfill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	For	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my warriors |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 2 | **fulfill** | infinitive | the wish of warriors's chief | my warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | my fathers |  |  | the sacred ground |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location |
| 4 | **wish** |  | warriors's chief |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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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