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title: In yonder tree the great _Wanm-dee_ [b] securely built her spacious… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In yonder tree the great _Wanm-dee_ [b] securely built her spacious nest; The blast that swept the land-locked sea [c] but rocked her clamorous babes to rest. Who acts: great Wanm dee, blast. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 93

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In yonder tree the great \_Wanm-dee\_ \[b\] securely built her spacious nest; The blast that swept the land-locked sea \[c\] but rocked her clamorous babes to rest.

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**Who acts:** great Wanm dee, blast · **What happens:** build, sweep, lock, rock, rest · **To what, where:** spacious nest, tree, locked sea, clamorous babes

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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 (great Wanm dee, blast), 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:pg8122:19:93
# text = In yonder tree the great _Wanm-dee_ [b] securely built her spacious nest; The blast that swept the land-locked sea [c] but rocked her clamorous babes to rest.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Wanm	Wanm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dee	Dee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	clamorous	clamorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the great Wanm dee | dee's spacious nest |  | tree |  | the blast *obl*; securely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | the blast | the locked sea |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | land *compound* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rock** | past | the blast *not said here* | dee's clamorous babes |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location babe=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the blast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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