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title: On hill and dale the cities pour their gay and fair; Along the sapph… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On hill and dale the cities pour their gay and fair; Along the sapphire lake they sail, and quaff like wine the balmy air. Who acts: cities. 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 cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 88

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On hill and dale the cities pour their gay and fair; Along the sapphire lake they sail, and quaff like wine the balmy air.

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**Who acts:** cities · **What happens:** pour, sail · **To what, where:** gay, hill, quaff, sapphire lake

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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 (cities), 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:pg8122:19:88
# text = On hill and dale the cities pour their gay and fair; Along the sapphire lake they sail, and quaff like wine the balmy air.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sapphire	sapphire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	quaff	quaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	balmy	balmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | present | the cities | cities's gay |  | hill and dale |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gay=Patient |
| 2 | **sail** | present | cities *= city* | quaff like wine |  | the sapphire lake |  | the balmy air *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along lake=Trajectory |

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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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