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title: [a] The Dakotas say that the spirit of Winona forever haunts the lake. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] The Dakotas say that the spirit of Winona forever haunts the lake. Who acts: Dakotas, spirit. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 20

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\[a\] The Dakotas say that the spirit of Winona forever haunts the lake.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas, spirit · **What happens:** say, haunt · **To what, where:** lake · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas, spirit), 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:pg8122:15:20
# text = [a] The Dakotas say that the spirit of Winona forever haunts the lake.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Dakotas |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **haunt** | present | the spirit of Winona | the lake |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lake=Experiencer |

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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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