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title: [b] Sacred Dance--The Medicine dance--See description infra. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] Sacred Dance--The Medicine dance--See description infra. Who acts: Sacred. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 17

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\[b\] Sacred Dance--The Medicine dance--See description infra.

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**Who acts:** Sacred · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** description, Sacred

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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 (Sacred), 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:pg8122:11:17
# text = [b] Sacred Dance--The Medicine dance--See description infra.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	infra	infra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Sacred *not said here* | description |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer description=Stimulus |

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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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