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title: [Footnote 1016: Shingebis, the diver, is the only water-fowl that re… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 1016: Shingebis, the diver, is the only water-fowl that remains about Lake Superior all winter. Who acts: Footnote, only water fowl. 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 34

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\[Footnote 1016: Shingebis, the diver, is the only water-fowl that remains about Lake Superior all winter.

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**Who acts:** Footnote, only water fowl · **What happens:** be, remain · **To what, where:** only water fowl, Lake

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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: who acts (Footnote, only water fowl), 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:pg8122:23:34
# text = [Footnote 1016: Shingebis, the diver, is the only water-fowl that remains about Lake Superior all winter.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	1016	1016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Shingebis	Shingebis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	diver	diver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Footnote | the only water fowl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the only water fowl | Lake |  |  | winter |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Attribute |

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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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