---
title: [b] The Dakotas called Nicollet Island "Wi-ta Waste"--the Beautiful… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] The Dakotas called Nicollet Island "Wi-ta Waste"--the Beautiful Island. Who acts: Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/) / 65

# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 65

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[b\] The Dakotas called Nicollet Island "Wi-ta Waste"--the Beautiful Island.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Nicollet Island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:10:65
# text = [b] The Dakotas called Nicollet Island "Wi-ta Waste"--the Beautiful Island.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Nicollet	Nicollet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Wi	Wi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the Dakotas |  | Nicollet Island |  |  | b *discourse*; Wi ta Waste *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/66/)
- ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/)