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title: Woe-is-me!] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Woe-is-me!] A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 31

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Woe-is-me!\]

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. 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:pg8122:23:31
# text = Woe-is-me!]
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | me |  |  |  | Woe *appos* | 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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