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title: Thus she cast away her burdens, Cast her burdens on the waters; Thus… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus she cast away her burdens, Cast her burdens on the waters; Thus unto the Mighty Spirit, Made her lowly lamentation: "Wahonówin!--Wahonówin!" Who acts: rabbit. 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 65

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Thus she cast away her burdens, Cast her burdens on the waters; Thus unto the Mighty Spirit, Made her lowly lamentation: "Wahonówin!--Wahonówin!"

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**Who acts:** rabbit · **What happens:** cast away, make, burden · **To what, where:** burdens, lowly lamentation, rabbit, waters

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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 (rabbit), 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:pg8122:18:65
# text = Thus she cast away her burdens, Cast her burdens on the waters; Thus unto the Mighty Spirit, Made her lowly lamentation: "Wahonówin!--Wahonówin!"
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Cast	cast	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Mighty	Mighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Wahonówin	Wahonówin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Wahonówin	Wahonówin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast away** | past | rabbit | rabbit's burdens |  |  |  | cast rabbit's burdens on the waters; away, thus *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Product |
| 2 | **make** | past | rabbit *not said here* | lowly lamentation | rabbit |  |  | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary lamentation=Product |
| 3 | **burden** |  | rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **burden** |  | rabbit |  |  | the waters |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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