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title: On the tall cliff o'er the waters Raven sat with Waub-omeé-meé, Sat… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the tall cliff o'er the waters Raven sat with Waub-omeé-meé, Sat and watched again and waited, Till the wee one faint and famished, Made a long and piteous wailing. Who acts: Raven. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 47

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On the tall cliff o'er the waters Raven sat with Waub-omeé-meé, Sat and watched again and waited, Till the wee one faint and famished, Made a long and piteous wailing.

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**Who acts:** Raven · **What happens:** sit, watch, wait, famish, make · **To what, where:** tall cliff, long 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 (Raven), 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:pg8122:19:47
# text = On the tall cliff o'er the waters Raven sat with Waub-omeé-meé, Sat and watched again and waited, Till the wee one faint and famished, Made a long and piteous wailing.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	omeé	omeé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	meé	meé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	famished	famish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	piteous	piteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Raven |  |  | the tall cliff o'er the waters |  | with Waub omeé meé | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | past | Raven *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | past | Raven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the wee one faint *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **famish** | past | Raven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | Raven *not said here* | a long wailing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wailing=Product |

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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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