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title: For she thought of the terrible Chippeway-- The fiends that the babe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For she thought of the terrible Chippeway-- The fiends that the babe and the mother slay; And yonder they came in their war-array! Who acts: band, fiends, babe. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 27

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For she thought of the terrible Chippeway-- The fiends that the babe and the mother slay; And yonder they came in their war-array!

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**Who acts:** band, fiends, babe · **What happens:** think, slay, come · **To what, where:** war array

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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 (band, fiends, babe), 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:pg8122:9:27
# text = For she thought of the terrible Chippeway-- The fiends that the babe and the mother slay; And yonder they came in their war-array!
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | band |  |  |  |  | of the terrible Chippeway and the fiends | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | infinitive | the fiends |  |  |  |  | the babe and the mother *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | babe |  |  | babe's war array |  | yonder *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in array=Location |

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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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