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title: When the Panther wed the Sea-Gull, Young was he and very gladsome; F… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Panther wed the Sea-Gull, Young was he and very gladsome; Fair was she and full of laughter; Like the robin in the spring time, Sang from sunrise till the sunset; For she loved the handsome hunter. Who acts: Panther, Fair. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, I
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 4

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When the Panther wed the Sea-Gull, Young was he and very gladsome; Fair was she and full of laughter; Like the robin in the spring time, Sang from sunrise till the sunset; For she loved the handsome hunter.

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**Who acts:** Panther, Fair · **What happens:** w, be, love · **To what, where:** Sea Gull, handsome hunter

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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 (Panther, Fair), 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:pg8122:18:4
# text = When the Panther wed the Sea-Gull, Young was he and very gladsome; Fair was she and full of laughter; Like the robin in the spring time, Sang from sunrise till the sunset; For she loved the handsome hunter.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wed	w	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
36	till	till	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **w** | past | the Panther | the Sea Gull |  |  |  | the robin in the spring time from sunrise till the sunset and Sang *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | panther |  |  |  |  | gladsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Fair |  |  |  |  | of laughter; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | past | Fair | the handsome hunter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunter=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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