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title: Far away into the waters-- To the wigwam of the spirits,-- To the lo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away into the waters-- To the wigwam of the spirits,-- To the lodge of Nébe-nâw-baigs,-- Stretched the magic chain of silver. Who acts: Nébe nâw baigs. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 31

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Far away into the waters-- To the wigwam of the spirits,-- To the lodge of Nébe-nâw-baigs,-- Stretched the magic chain of silver.

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**Who acts:** Nébe nâw baigs · **What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** magic chain

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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 (Nébe nâw baigs), 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:pg8122:19:31
# text = Far away into the waters-- To the wigwam of the spirits,-- To the lodge of Nébe-nâw-baigs,-- Stretched the magic chain of silver.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	To	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	To	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	Nébe	Nébe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	nâw	nâw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	baigs	baig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | participle | Nébe nâw baigs *not said here* | the magic chain of silver |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |

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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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