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title: I sit once more on breezy shore, at sunset in this glorious June. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I sit once more on breezy shore, at sunset in this glorious June. Who acts: I. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 74

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I sit once more on breezy shore, at sunset in this glorious June.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** breezy shore

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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 (I), 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:pg8122:19:74
# text = I sit once more on breezy shore, at sunset in this glorious June.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	breezy	breezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | I |  |  | breezy shore | sunset |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |

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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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