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title: Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of eit… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either Smouldered still the baneful embers-- Fires of jealousy and hatred,-- Who acts: Friends. 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 78

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Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either Smouldered still the baneful embers-- Fires of jealousy and hatred,--

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**Who acts:** Friends · **What happens:** seem, smoulder, fire · **To what, where:** breast, jealousy

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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 (Friends), 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:pg8122:18:78
# text = Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either Smouldered still the baneful embers-- Fires of jealousy and hatred,--
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
15	Smouldered	smoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	baneful	baneful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Friends | the breast of the Smouldered baneful embers and Fires of jealousy and hatred |  |  |  | in word and action; friends *= friend* *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in word=Attribute |
| 2 | **smoulder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fire** |  |  | jealousy and hatred |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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