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title: [a] Now on speeds the light bark canoe, through the lakes to the bro… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] Now on speeds the light bark canoe, through the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee; [b] And up the great river they row, --up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; And down through the meadows they go to the river of broad Gitchee Gumee. Who acts: Chief. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanf
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 28

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\[a\] Now on speeds the light bark canoe, through the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee; \[b\] And up the great river they row, --up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; And down through the meadows they go to the river of broad Gitchee Gumee.

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**Who acts:** Chief · **What happens:** speed, up, row, go · **To what, where:** bark canoe, lakes, great river, meadows

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief), 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:pg8122:13:28
# text = [a] Now on speeds the light bark canoe, through the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee; [b] And up the great river they row, --up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; And down through the meadows they go to the river of broad Gitchee Gumee.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	speeds	speed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	broad	broad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Seebee	Seebee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	b	b	NUM	LS	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	up	up	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	row	row	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	up	up	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	Big	Big	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	Sandy	Sandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Savanna	Savanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
43	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | present |  | the bark canoe |  | the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee | now | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme through lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **up** | past |  | the great river |  |  |  | up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; b *discourse* | tree rules |
| 3 | **row** | present | Chief | the great river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | Chief | the meadows *not said here* |  |  |  | to the river of broad Gitchee | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=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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