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title: To herself said Sea-Gull--"Surely I will dare whatever danger Dares… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To herself said Sea-Gull--"Surely I will dare whatever danger Dares the Red Fox--dares my rival; She shall never call me coward." Who acts: Sea, danger. 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 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 10

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To herself said Sea-Gull--"Surely I will dare whatever danger Dares the Red Fox--dares my rival; She shall never call me coward."

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**Who acts:** Sea, danger · **What happens:** say, dare, not call · **To what, where:** crow, whatever, rival, Sea · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea, danger), 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:pg8122:19:10
# text = To herself said Sea-Gull--"Surely I will dare whatever danger Dares the Red Fox--dares my rival; She shall never call me coward."
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	Dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sea and Gull |  | crow |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dare** *in a quote* | future | Sea and Gull *= sea* |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | danger | whatever |  |  |  | the Red Fox *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | danger *not said here* | my rival |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **call** *in a quote* | shall | danger |  | Sea and Gull *= sea* |  |  | coward *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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