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title: On the shore of Gitchee Gumee, Ever young and ever handsome, Long an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the shore of Gitchee Gumee, Ever young and ever handsome, Long and happy lived the Sea-Gull, Long and happy with the Panther. Who acts: shore. 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 ever
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 62

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On the shore of Gitchee Gumee, Ever young and ever handsome, Long and happy lived the Sea-Gull, Long and happy with the Panther.

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**Who acts:** shore · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Sea Gull

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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 (shore), 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:pg8122:19:62
# text = On the shore of Gitchee Gumee, Ever young and ever handsome, Long and happy lived the Sea-Gull, Long and happy with the Panther.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the shore of Gitchee | the Sea Gull |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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