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description: Ah, little he dreamed then, forsooth, that a city would stand on that hill-side, And bear the proud name of Duluth, the untiring and dauntless explorer. Who acts: DuLuth, city. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency t
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 40

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Ah, little he dreamed then, forsooth, that a city would stand on that hill-side, And bear the proud name of Duluth, the untiring and dauntless explorer.

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**Who acts:** DuLuth, city · **What happens:** dream, stand, bear, name · **To what, where:** hill side, proud name, Duluth

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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 (DuLuth, city), 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:pg8122:13:40
# text = Ah, little he dreamed then, forsooth, that a city would stand on that hill-side, And bear the proud name of Duluth, the untiring and dauntless explorer.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Duluth	Duluth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	untiring	untiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dauntless	dauntless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | DuLuth |  |  |  |  | forsooth, little *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | would | a city |  |  | that hill side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 3 | **bear** | infinitive | a city *not said here* | the proud name of Duluth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Duluth |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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