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title: Then Según, the fair youth, answered: "Lo I breathe upon the hill-si… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Según, the fair youth, answered: "Lo I breathe upon the hill-sides, On the valleys and the meadows, And behold, as if by magic-- By the magic of the Spirits, Spring the flowers and tender grasses." Who acts: Según. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measur
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 91

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Then Según, the fair youth, answered: "Lo I breathe upon the hill-sides, On the valleys and the meadows, And behold, as if by magic-- By the magic of the Spirits, Spring the flowers and tender grasses."

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**Who acts:** Según · **What happens:** answer, breathe · **To what, where:** valleys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Según), 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:pg8122:18:91
# text = Then Según, the fair youth, answered: "Lo I breathe upon the hill-sides, On the valleys and the meadows, And behold, as if by magic-- By the magic of the Spirits, Spring the flowers and tender grasses."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	Según	Según	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	On	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	By	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Según |  |  |  | then | magic by the magic of the Spirits and Spring and the flowers and tender grasses *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | Según |  |  | the valleys and the meadows |  | upon the hill sides | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on valley=Destination |

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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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