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title: If the Sea-Gull hear the wailing Of her infant she will answer." — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Sea-Gull hear the wailing Of her infant she will answer." Who acts: Sea Gull, Gull. 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 26

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If the Sea-Gull hear the wailing Of her infant she will answer."

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**Who acts:** Sea Gull, Gull · **What happens:** hear, answer · **To what, where:** wailing

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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), 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:pg8122:19:26
# text = If the Sea-Gull hear the wailing Of her infant she will answer."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the Sea Gull | the wailing of Gull's infant |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wailing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | Gull |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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