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title: Some "down-east" Yankee, called it "Pie-Island," from its (to his hu… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Some "down-east" Yankee, called it "Pie-Island," from its (to his hungry imagination) fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie, and the name, like all bad names, _sticks_. Who acts: down east, _, form. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5,
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 28

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Some "down-east" Yankee, called it "Pie-Island," from its (to his hungry imagination) fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie, and the name, like all bad names, \_sticks\_.

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**Who acts:** down east, \_, form · **What happens:** call, fancy, stick, imagine · **To what, where:** form, resemblance, hungry imagination, bad names · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (down east, \_, form), 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:pg8122:22:28
# text = Some "down-east" Yankee, called it "Pie-Island," from its (to his hungry imagination) fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie, and the name, like all bad names, _sticks_.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Yankee	Yankee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | some down east | form |  |  |  | Pie Island *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **fancy** | past | some down east *not said here* | resemblance |  | form's hungry imagination |  | to a pumpkin pie and the name; like all bad names | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer resemblance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stick** | present | \_ | all bad names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **imagine** |  | form |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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