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title: For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, A… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, And the Spirits by their magic Made her young and fair forever. Who acts: Spirits. 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 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 56

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For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, And the Spirits by their magic Made her young and fair forever.

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**Who acts:** Spirits · **What happens:** wash away, make, wave · **To what, where:** frost, Gitchee

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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 (Spirits), 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:pg8122:19:56
# text = For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, And the Spirits by their magic Made her young and fair forever.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash away** | past |  | the frost and wrinkles |  |  |  | for the waves of Gitchee; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent frost=Patient for wave=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Spirits by spirits's magic | Gitchee |  |  |  | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 3 | **wave** |  |  | Gitchee |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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