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title: Then spoke Panther to the Raven: "On the tall cliff by the waters Wa… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spoke Panther to the Raven: "On the tall cliff by the waters Wait and watch with Waub-omeé-meé. 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 25

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Then spoke Panther to the Raven: "On the tall cliff by the waters Wait and watch with Waub-omeé-meé.

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**What happens:** speak, wait, watch · **To what, where:** Panther, tall cliff · **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: 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:pg8122:19:25
# text = Then spoke Panther to the Raven: "On the tall cliff by the waters Wait and watch with Waub-omeé-meé.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	On	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	Wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	omeé	omeé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	meé	meé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  | Panther |  |  | then | to the Raven | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the tall cliff by the waters |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cliff=Location |
| 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | with Waub omeé meé | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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