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title: Lay in the fruitful val|ley. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Lay in the fruitful val|ley. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 51

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Lay in the fruitful val\|ley.

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**To what, where:** Lay

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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: 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:pg8122:2:52
# text = Lay in the fruitful val|ley.
1	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	val	Val	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	|	|	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ley	ley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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