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title: Loud from its rocky cav|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Spea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Loud from its rocky cav|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents discon|solate answers the wail of the forest. Who acts: accents discon, forest. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Supe
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 50

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Loud from its rocky cav\|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents discon\|solate answers the wail of the forest.

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**Who acts:** accents discon, forest · **What happens:** voice, neighbor, solate, answer, wail · **To what, where:** wail, rocky cav

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accents discon, forest), 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:pg8122:2:51
# text = Loud from its rocky cav|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents discon|solate answers the wail of the forest.
1	Loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cav	cav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	|	|	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	erns	ern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	voiced	voice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	Speaks	Speaks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	discon	discon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	|	|	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	solate	solate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voice** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **solate** | infinitive | accents discon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | accents discon | the wail of the forest |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wail=Eventuality |
| 6 | **wail** |  | the forest |  |  |  |  |  | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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