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title: From the far-off Sunny Islands, From the pleasant land of Summer, Wh… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the far-off Sunny Islands, From the pleasant land of Summer, Where the spirits of the blessèd Feel no more the fangs of hunger, Or the cold breath of Kewâydin, Came a stately youth and handsome, Came Según the foe of Winter. Who acts: spirits. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 81

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From the far-off Sunny Islands, From the pleasant land of Summer, Where the spirits of the blessèd Feel no more the fangs of hunger, Or the cold breath of Kewâydin, Came a stately youth and handsome, Came Según the foe of Winter.

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**Who acts:** spirits · **What happens:** feel, come · **To what, where:** more fangs, youth, far Sunny Islands

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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 (spirits), 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:pg8122:18:81
# text = From the far-off Sunny Islands, From the pleasant land of Summer, Where the spirits of the blessèd Feel no more the fangs of hunger, Or the cold breath of Kewâydin, Came a stately youth and handsome, Came Según the foe of Winter.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Sunny	Sunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	From	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blessèd	blessèd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	Feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Kewâydin	Kewâydin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
45	Según	Según	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | the spirits of the blessèd | the more fangs of hunger |  |  |  | the cold breath of Kewâydin *obl* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the spirits of the blessèd *not said here* | a youth |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location youth=Theme |

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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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