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title: Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam;… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses. Who acts: Sad heart, winters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 42

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Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses.

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**Who acts:** Sad heart, winters · **What happens:** be, watch, wait, sift, storm · **To what, where:** Sea Gull waiting, wigwam

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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 (Sad heart, winters), 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:pg8122:18:42
# text = Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses.
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Gull	gull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	Sifted	sift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tresses	tress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sad heart | Sea Gull waiting and the storms of winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses |  |  |  | the storms of winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | Sad heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | Sad heart *not said here* |  |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location |
| 4 | **sift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **storm** |  | winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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