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title: In the hollow earth, dark and profound, Unktéhee and fiery Wakín-yan… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the hollow earth, dark and profound, Unktéhee and fiery Wakín-yan Long fought and the terrible sound of the battle was louder than thunder; The mountains were heaved and around were scattered the hills and the boulders, And the vast solid plains of the ground rose and fell like the waves of the o
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 71

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In the hollow earth, dark and profound, Unktéhee and fiery Wakín-yan Long fought and the terrible sound of the battle was louder than thunder; The mountains were heaved and around were scattered the hills and the boulders, And the vast solid plains of the ground rose and fell like the waves of the ocean.

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**Who acts:** Unktéhee, terrible sound, vast solid plains · **What happens:** fight, be, heave, scatter, rise, fall · **To what, where:** hollow earth, mountains, hills, ocean

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unktéhee, terrible sound, vast solid plains), 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:pg8122:11:71
# text = In the hollow earth, dark and profound, Unktéhee and fiery Wakín-yan Long fought and the terrible sound of the battle was louder than thunder; The mountains were heaved and around were scattered the hills and the boulders, And the vast solid plains of the ground rose and fell like the waves of the ocean.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Wakín	Wakín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yan	yan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	appos	_	_
17	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	heaved	heave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	around	around	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
44	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Unktéhee and fiery Wakín yan |  |  | the hollow earth |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the terrible sound of the battle |  |  |  |  | than thunder; loud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **heave** | past · passive |  | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | the hills and the boulders |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: hill=Theme |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the vast solid plains of the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fall** | past | the vast solid plains of the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the waves of the ocean | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wave** |  |  | the ocean |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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