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title: Sprang the Panther from the thicket-- Sprang and broke the chain of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Sprang the Panther from the thicket-- Sprang and broke the chain of silver! 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 50

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Sprang the Panther from the thicket-- Sprang and broke the chain of silver!

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**What happens:** spring, break · **To what, where:** Panther, thicket, 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: 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:pg8122:19:50
# text = Sprang the Panther from the thicket-- Sprang and broke the chain of silver!
1	Sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Sprang	Sprang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past |  | the Panther |  | the thicket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location panther=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past |  | the chain of silver |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 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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