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title: From bank and hill the whippowil sends piping forth his flute-like n… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From bank and hill the whippowil sends piping forth his flute-like notes, And clear and shrill the answers trill from leafy isles and silver throats. Who acts: whippowil, answers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependen
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 86

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From bank and hill the whippowil sends piping forth his flute-like notes, And clear and shrill the answers trill from leafy isles and silver throats.

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**Who acts:** whippowil, answers · **What happens:** send, pipe, clear, shrill, trill, note · **To what, where:** bank, like notes, leafy isles

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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 (whippowil, answers), 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:pg8122:19:86
# text = From bank and hill the whippowil sends piping forth his flute-like notes, And clear and shrill the answers trill from leafy isles and silver throats.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	piping	pipe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shrill	shrill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	trill	trill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | the whippowil |  |  | bank and hill |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pipe** | gerund | the whippowil *not said here* | whippowil's like notes |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **shrill** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **trill** | present | the answers |  |  | leafy isles and silver throats |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **note** |  | whippowil |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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