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title: Like one walking in his slumber, Listless, dreaming walked the Panth… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like one walking in his slumber, Listless, dreaming walked the Panther; Surely had some witch bewitched him, Some bad spirit of the forest. Who acts: witch, Sullen. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 37

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Like one walking in his slumber, Listless, dreaming walked the Panther; Surely had some witch bewitched him, Some bad spirit of the forest.

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**Who acts:** witch, Sullen · **What happens:** walk, dream, have, bewitch, slumber · **To what, where:** slumber, Panther, Sullen

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Sullen), 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:pg8122:18:37
# text = Like one walking in his slumber, Listless, dreaming walked the Panther; Surely had some witch bewitched him, Some bad spirit of the forest.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Listless	Listless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | Sullen's slumber |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slumber=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk** | past |  | the Panther |  |  |  | like one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme panther=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bewitch** | past | some witch | Sullen |  |  |  | some bad spirit of the forest *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 6 | **slumber** |  | Sullen |  |  |  |  |  | nom slumber «state 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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