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title: [76] cried the warrior greeting from afar the cataract's roar; "Ha-h… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [76] cried the warrior greeting from afar the cataract's roar; "Ha-ha!" rolled the answer, beating down the rock-ribbed leagues of shore. Who acts: 76, ha, cataract. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 10

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\[76\] cried the warrior greeting from afar the cataract's roar; "Ha-ha!" rolled the answer, beating down the rock-ribbed leagues of shore.

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**Who acts:** 76, ha, cataract · **What happens:** cry, roll, beat down, rib, roar · **To what, where:** warrior greeting, afar, answer, ribbed leagues

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (76, ha, cataract), 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:pg8122:4:10
# text = [76] cried the warrior greeting from afar the cataract's roar; "Ha-ha!" rolled the answer, beating down the rock-ribbed leagues of shore.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ha	ha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ribbed	rib	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | 76 | the warrior greeting |  | afar |  | the cataract's roar *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | past | ha | the answer |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Agent |
| 3 | **beat down** | gerund | ha *not said here* | the ribbed leagues of shore |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme |
| 4 | **rib** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rock *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **roar** |  | the cataract |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: 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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