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title: As the robin returns and the whippowil When my warriors stand on the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: As the robin returns and the whippowil When my warriors stand on the sacred hill And remember the deeds of their brave chief slain." Who acts: warriors. 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 o
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 87

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As the robin returns and the whippowil When my warriors stand on the sacred hill And remember the deeds of their brave chief slain."

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** return, stand, remember · **To what, where:** sacred hill, deeds

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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 (warriors), 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:pg8122:8:87
# text = As the robin returns and the whippowil When my warriors stand on the sacred hill And remember the deeds of their brave chief slain."
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the robin; the whippowil *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | my warriors |  |  | the sacred hill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | my warriors *not said here* | the deeds of warriors's brave chief slain |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent deed=Theme |

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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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