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title: On the queen of fairy islands, on the Wita-Wâstè's [b] shore, Camped… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the queen of fairy islands, on the Wita-Wâstè's [b] shore, Camped Wanâta, on the highlands, just above the cataract's roar. Who acts: cataract. 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 27

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On the queen of fairy islands, on the Wita-Wâstè's \[b\] shore, Camped Wanâta, on the highlands, just above the cataract's roar.

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**Who acts:** cataract · **What happens:** camp, roar · **To what, where:** Wanâta, highlands

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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 (cataract), 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:pg8122:17:27
# text = On the queen of fairy islands, on the Wita-Wâstè's [b] shore, Camped Wanâta, on the highlands, just above the cataract's roar.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Wita	Wita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wâstè	Wâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	Camped	camp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **camp** | past |  | Wanâta |  | the highlands |  | on the queen of fairy islands; above the cataract's roar | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wanâta=Location |
| 2 | **roar** |  | the cataract |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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