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title: Old and wrinkled was the Sea-Gull, Good and true, but old and wrinkl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Old and wrinkled was the Sea-Gull, Good and true, but old and wrinkled. Who acts: Sea Gull. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 51

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Old and wrinkled was the Sea-Gull, Good and true, but old and wrinkled.

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**Who acts:** Sea Gull · **What happens:** wrinkle, be

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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 (Sea Gull), 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:pg8122:18:51
# text = Old and wrinkled was the Sea-Gull, Good and true, but old and wrinkled.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
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	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrinkle** | participle | the Sea Gull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Sea Gull |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the Sea Gull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the Sea Gull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wrinkle** | participle | the Sea Gull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient 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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