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title: Great Unktèhee [69]--god of waters--lifts no more his mighty head;--… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Great Unktèhee [69]--god of waters--lifts no more his mighty head;-- Fled he with the timid otters?--lies he in the cavern dead? Who acts: Great Unktèhee. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 10

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Great Unktèhee \[69\]--god of waters--lifts no more his mighty head;-- Fled he with the timid otters?--lies he in the cavern dead?

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**Who acts:** Great Unktèhee · **What happens:** flee, lie · **To what, where:** head, cavern

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Unktèhee), 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:pg8122:16:10
# text = Great Unktèhee [69]--god of waters--lifts no more his mighty head;-- Fled he with the timid otters?--lies he in the cavern dead?
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Unktèhee	Unktèhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	69	69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	lifts	lift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **flee** | past | Great Unktèhee | head |  |  |  | with the timid otters | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Great Unktèhee *not said here* | head |  | the cavern |  |  | tree rules |

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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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