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title: Then to Panther spoke the Raven: "She is in the Land of Spirits-- Su… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then to Panther spoke the Raven: "She is in the Land of Spirits-- Surely in the Land of Spirits. Who acts: Raven. 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 21

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Then to Panther spoke the Raven: "She is in the Land of Spirits-- Surely in the Land of Spirits.

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**Who acts:** Raven · **What happens:** speak, be · **To what, where:** Raven, Panther, Land · **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 (Raven), 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:pg8122:19:21
# text = Then to Panther spoke the Raven: "She is in the Land of Spirits-- Surely in the Land of Spirits.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  | the Raven | Panther |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Raven |  |  | the Land |  | of Spirits | 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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