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title: Duluth stood alone by the roar of the Ha-ha; Tall and fair in the st… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Duluth stood alone by the roar of the Ha-ha; Tall and fair in the strength of his youth stood the blue-eyed and fair-bearded Frenchman. Who acts: Duluth, Ha ha. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 4

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Duluth stood alone by the roar of the Ha-ha; Tall and fair in the strength of his youth stood the blue-eyed and fair-bearded Frenchman.

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**Who acts:** Duluth, Ha ha · **What happens:** stand, roar · **To what, where:** eyed Frenchman, strength

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duluth, Ha ha), 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:pg8122:12:4
# text = Duluth stood alone by the roar of the Ha-ha; Tall and fair in the strength of his youth stood the blue-eyed and fair-bearded Frenchman.
1	Duluth	Duluth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Ha	Ha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ha	ha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Duluth |  |  |  |  | by the roar of the Ha ha; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roar=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Duluth *not said here* | the eyed Frenchman |  | the strength of Duluth's youth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frenchman=Theme in strength=Destination |
| 3 | **roar** |  | the Ha ha |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event 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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