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title: O give me the wings of the thunder-birds, For his were-wolves [52] f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: O give me the wings of the thunder-birds, For his were-wolves [52] follow Wiwâstè's trail; O, guide my flight to the far Hóhé-- The sheltering lodge of my brave Chaskè." Who acts: you, 52. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 14

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O give me the wings of the thunder-birds, For his were-wolves \[52\] follow Wiwâstè's trail; O, guide my flight to the far Hóhé-- The sheltering lodge of my brave Chaskè."

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**Who acts:** you, 52 · **What happens:** give, be, follow, guide, shelter · **To what, where:** wings, me, trail, flight, far Hóhé

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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 (you, 52), 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:pg8122:9:14
# text = O give me the wings of the thunder-birds, For his were-wolves [52] follow Wiwâstè's trail; O, guide my flight to the far Hóhé-- The sheltering lodge of my brave Chaskè."
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	For	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sheltering	shelter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wings of the thunder birds | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wing=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for cry's wolves; cry *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | 52 | Wiwâstè's trail |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme |
| 4 | **guide** | infinitive | 52 *not said here* | my flight | the far Hóhé |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flight=Theme to hóhé=Destination |
| 5 | **shelter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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