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title: So from Sunny Isles returning, From the Summer-Land of spirits, On t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: So from Sunny Isles returning, From the Summer-Land of spirits, On the poles of Panther's wigwam Sang Opeé-chee--sang the robin. Who acts: Sunny Isles. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 1

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So from Sunny Isles returning, From the Summer-Land of spirits, On the poles of Panther's wigwam Sang Opeé-chee--sang the robin.

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**Who acts:** Sunny Isles · **What happens:** return, sing · **To what, where:** Summer Land, robin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunny Isles), 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:pg8122:19:1
# text = So from Sunny Isles returning, From the Summer-Land of spirits, On the poles of Panther's wigwam Sang Opeé-chee--sang the robin.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Sunny	Sunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
5	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	From	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Opeé	Opeé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	chee	chee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | Sunny Isles *not said here* |  |  | the Summer Land of spirits |  | on the poles of Panther's wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Sunny Isles | the robin |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location robin=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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