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title: Nay; look on the dizzy cliff high! --on the brink of the cliff stand… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay; look on the dizzy cliff high! --on the brink of the cliff stands Winona! Who acts: you, brink. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 136

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Nay; look on the dizzy cliff high! --on the brink of the cliff stands Winona!

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**Who acts:** you, brink · **What happens:** look, stand · **To what, where:** Winona

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brink), 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:pg8122:14:136
# text = Nay; look on the dizzy cliff high! --on the brink of the cliff stands Winona!
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the dizzy cliff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on cliff=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the brink of the cliff | Winona |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus |

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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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