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title: The deep, blue waters, zephyr-rolled, along the murmuring pebbles br… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The deep, blue waters, zephyr-rolled, along the murmuring pebbles break. Who acts: murmuring pebbles. 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 80

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The deep, blue waters, zephyr-rolled, along the murmuring pebbles break.

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**Who acts:** murmuring pebbles · **What happens:** roll, break · **To what, where:** deep blue waters

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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 (murmuring pebbles), 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:pg8122:19:80
# text = The deep, blue waters, zephyr-rolled, along the murmuring pebbles break.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	zephyr	zephyr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **roll** | participle · passive |  | the deep blue waters |  |  |  | zephyr *compound* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | present | the murmuring pebbles |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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