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title: Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the Sun-rise, the East.] Who acts: Waubúnong. 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 45

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Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the Sun-rise, the East.\]

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**Who acts:** Waubúnong · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** White Land

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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 (Waubúnong), 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:pg8122:23:45
# text = Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the Sun-rise, the East.]
1	Waubúnong	Waubúnong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ó	ó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nong	nong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Waubúnong | the White Land or Land of Light |  |  |  | Land of Light *conj*; the Sun rise *parataxis* | 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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