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title: Thus she spoke and in the twinkling Of a star the spirit-woman Chang… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus she spoke and in the twinkling Of a star the spirit-woman Changed into a snow-white sea-gull, Spread her wings and o'er the waters Swiftly flew and swiftly vanished. Who acts: orphan. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 39

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Thus she spoke and in the twinkling Of a star the spirit-woman Changed into a snow-white sea-gull, Spread her wings and o'er the waters Swiftly flew and swiftly vanished.

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**Who acts:** orphan · **What happens:** speak, change, spread, fly, vanish · **To what, where:** spirit woman, white sea gull, wings, twinkling · **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 (orphan), 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:pg8122:19:39
# text = Thus she spoke and in the twinkling Of a star the spirit-woman Changed into a snow-white sea-gull, Spread her wings and o'er the waters Swiftly flew and swiftly vanished.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
8	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	Changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	gull	gull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
25	Spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
32	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | orphan |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  | the spirit woman *not said here* |  |  |  | into a white sea gull *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into gull=Result |
| 3 | **spread** | past | orphan *not said here* | orphan's wings |  | the twinkling of a star |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in twinkling=Destination |
| 4 | **fly** | past | orphan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | o'er the waters; swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **vanish** | past | orphan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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