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title: From this cliff the treacherous woman Headlong into Gitchee Gumee Pl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From this cliff the treacherous woman Headlong into Gitchee Gumee Plunged the mother of my orphan. Who acts: treacherous woman. 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 33

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From this cliff the treacherous woman Headlong into Gitchee Gumee Plunged the mother of my orphan.

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**Who acts:** treacherous woman · **What happens:** plunge · **To what, where:** mother, cliff

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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 (treacherous woman), 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:pg8122:19:33
# text = From this cliff the treacherous woman Headlong into Gitchee Gumee Plunged the mother of my orphan.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	Headlong	Headlong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	orphan	orphan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunge** | past | the treacherous woman into Gitchee | the mother of my orphan |  | this cliff |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mother=Extent from cliff=Initial\_State |

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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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