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title: THE "WAKAN WACEPEE," OR SACRED DANCE. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: THE "WAKAN WACEPEE," OR SACRED DANCE. 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 65

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THE "WAKAN WACEPEE," OR SACRED DANCE.

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**To what, where:** WAKAN WACEPEE

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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: 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:pg8122:11:65
# text = THE "WAKAN WACEPEE," OR SACRED DANCE.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	WAKAN	WAKAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	WACEPEE	WACEPEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	OR	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	SACRED	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	DANCE	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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