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title: Then the Red Fox saw the Sea-Gull-- Saw the dead a living woman, One… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Red Fox saw the Sea-Gull-- Saw the dead a living woman, One wild cry she gave despairing, One wild cry as of a demon. Who acts: Red Fox, Fox. 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 58

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Then the Red Fox saw the Sea-Gull-- Saw the dead a living woman, One wild cry she gave despairing, One wild cry as of a demon.

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**Who acts:** Red Fox, Fox · **What happens:** see, give, despair · **To what, where:** Sea Gull, dead living woman, One wild cry

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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 (Red Fox, Fox), 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:pg8122:19:58
# text = Then the Red Fox saw the Sea-Gull-- Saw the dead a living woman, One wild cry she gave despairing, One wild cry as of a demon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	despairing	despair	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see** | past | the Red Fox | the Sea Gull |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gull=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Red Fox *not said here* | the dead living woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | Fox | One wild cry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **despair** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | One wild cry as a demon |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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