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title: Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love--as broad and boundless;… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love--as broad and boundless; And the wedded twain were happy-- Happy as the mated robins. Who acts: wedded twain. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 5

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Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love--as broad and boundless; And the wedded twain were happy-- Happy as the mated robins.

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**Who acts:** wedded twain · **What happens:** be, wed, mate · **To what, where:** Deep love

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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 (wedded twain), 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:pg8122:18:5
# text = Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love--as broad and boundless; And the wedded twain were happy-- Happy as the mated robins.
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mated	mate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Gitchee's Deep love |  |  |  | Gitchee *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the wedded twain |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the wedded twain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the mated robins | tree rules |
| 5 | **mate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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