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title: Sea-Gull wanders late" said Red Fox, "Late she wanders by the sea-sh… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea-Gull wanders late" said Red Fox, "Late she wanders by the sea-shore, And some evil may befall her." Who acts: Sea Gull, Gull, evil. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 18

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Sea-Gull wanders late" said Red Fox, "Late she wanders by the sea-shore, And some evil may befall her."

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**Who acts:** Sea Gull, Gull, evil · **What happens:** wander, say, befall · **To what, where:** Red Fox, Fox · **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 Gull, Gull, evil), 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:pg8122:19:18
# text = Sea-Gull wanders late" said Red Fox, "Late she wanders by the sea-shore, And some evil may befall her."
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Gull	gull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | present | Sea Gull |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Sea Gull *not said here* | Red Fox |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **wander** | present | Gull |  |  |  |  | by the sea shore; late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Trajectory |
| 4 | **befall** | may | some evil | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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