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title: This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in _Hiawatha_. Who acts: Longfellow. 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 39

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This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in \_Hiawatha\_.

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**Who acts:** Longfellow · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** beautiful allegory, verse

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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 (Longfellow), 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:pg8122:23:39
# text = This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in _Hiawatha_.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	allegory	allegory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | Longfellow in \_ | this beautiful allegory |  | verse |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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