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title: Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm. Who acts: Laughed flood. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 2

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Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm.

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**Who acts:** Laughed flood · **What happens:** laugh, face · **To what, where:** fiercest winter storm

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laughed flood), 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:pg8122:17:2
# text = Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm.
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **face** | past | Laughed flood and fire and hunger | the fiercest winter storm |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme storm=Destination |

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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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