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title: Tanké, [a] is the White Chief to blame?" said DuLuth to the blushing… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Tanké, [a] is the White Chief to blame?" said DuLuth to the blushing Winona. " Who acts: Tanké, DuLuth. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 13

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Tanké, \[a\] is the White Chief to blame?" said DuLuth to the blushing Winona. "

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**Who acts:** Tanké, DuLuth · **What happens:** be, blame, say · **To what, where:** White Chief, blushing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tanké, DuLuth), 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:pg8122:12:13
# text = Tanké, [a] is the White Chief to blame?" said DuLuth to the blushing Winona. "
1	Tanké	Tanké	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blushing	blushing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a White Chief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blame** | to-infinitive | Tanké |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | DuLuth |  | the blushing |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to blushing=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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