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title: Very angry was the Spirit; When he drew the chain of silver, Drew an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Very angry was the Spirit; When he drew the chain of silver, Drew and found that it was broken, Found that he had lost the woman, Very angry was the Spirit. Who acts: Sprang, woman. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its depend
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 53

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Very angry was the Spirit; When he drew the chain of silver, Drew and found that it was broken, Found that he had lost the woman, Very angry was the Spirit.

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**Who acts:** Sprang, woman · **What happens:** be, draw, find, break, lose · **To what, where:** chain, silver, Spirit · **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 (Sprang, 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:pg8122:19:53
# text = Very angry was the Spirit; When he drew the chain of silver, Drew and found that it was broken, Found that he had lost the woman, Very angry was the Spirit.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Drew	Drew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Sprang | the chain of silver |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Sprang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past · passive |  | silver |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | past | Sprang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | past · perfect | Sprang |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the woman | the Spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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