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title: The chief of the mystical clan appointed a feast to Unktéhee-- The m… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief of the mystical clan appointed a feast to Unktéhee-- The mystic "Wacípee Wakán" [b]-- at the end of the day and the races. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 13

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The chief of the mystical clan appointed a feast to Unktéhee-- The mystic "Wacípee Wakán" \[b\]-- at the end of the day and the races.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** feast, Unktéhee

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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:pg8122:11:13
# text = The chief of the mystical clan appointed a feast to Unktéhee-- The mystic "Wacípee Wakán" [b]-- at the end of the day and the races.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Wacípee	Wacípee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	Wakán	Wakán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past | the chief of the mystical clan | a feast | Unktéhee |  | the end of the day and the races |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to unktéhee=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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