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title: Meteors are messengers from the Land of Spirits, warning of impendin… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Meteors are messengers from the Land of Spirits, warning of impending danger. Who acts: Meteors, warning. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 106

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Meteors are messengers from the Land of Spirits, warning of impending danger.

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**Who acts:** Meteors, warning · **What happens:** be, impend · **To what, where:** messengers, Land, danger

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meteors, warning), 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:pg8122:20:106
# text = Meteors are messengers from the Land of Spirits, warning of impending danger.
1	Meteors	meteor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	impending	impend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Meteors | messengers and warning |  | the Land of Spirits |  | warning *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **impend** | gerund | warning *not said here* | danger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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