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title: The cry of Wiwâstè, O mother, hear it; And touch the heart of my cru… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The cry of Wiwâstè, O mother, hear it; And touch the heart of my cruel father. Who acts: cry, Wiwâstè. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 12

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The cry of Wiwâstè, O mother, hear it; And touch the heart of my cruel father.

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**Who acts:** cry, Wiwâstè · **What happens:** hear, touch, cry · **To what, where:** river, heart

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, 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:pg8122:9:12
# text = The cry of Wiwâstè, O mother, hear it; And touch the heart of my cruel father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | infinitive | the cry of Wiwâstè and mother | river |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **touch** | infinitive | the cry of Wiwâstè and mother *not said here* | the heart of my cruel father |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **cry** |  | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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