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title: To the far-off Sunny Islands-- To the Summer-Land of Spirits, Where… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To the far-off Sunny Islands-- To the Summer-Land of Spirits, Where no more the happy hunter Feels the fangs of frost or famine, Or the keen blasts of Kewâydin. Who acts: Summer Land. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its depe
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 66

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To the far-off Sunny Islands-- To the Summer-Land of Spirits, Where no more the happy hunter Feels the fangs of frost or famine, Or the keen blasts of Kewâydin.

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**Who acts:** Summer Land · **What happens:** feel, blast · **To what, where:** fangs, Kewâydin

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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 (Summer Land), 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:pg8122:19:66
# text = To the far-off Sunny Islands-- To the Summer-Land of Spirits, Where no more the happy hunter Feels the fangs of frost or famine, Or the keen blasts of Kewâydin.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Sunny	Sunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	To	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
23	Feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Kewâydin	Kewâydin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | the Summer Land of Spirits | the fangs of frost or famine |  |  |  | to the far Sunny Islands; the keen blasts of Kewâydin *conj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Theme |
| 2 | **blast** |  |  | Kewâydin |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act 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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