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title: Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa--Clouded Day--was the name of the Dakota mother… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa--Clouded Day--was the name of the Dakota mother who committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls of St. Anthony. Who acts: pe, tu Sa pa, Note, Dakota mother. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 1

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Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa--Clouded Day--was the name of the Dakota mother who committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls of St. Anthony.

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**Who acts:** pe, tu Sa pa, Note, Dakota mother · **What happens:** pa, cloud, be, suicide, plunge · **To what, where:** Day, name, Falls

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pe, tu Sa pa, Note, Dakota mother), 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:pg8122:16:1
# text = Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa--Clouded Day--was the name of the Dakota mother who committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls of St. Anthony.
1	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
8	Sa	Sa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:desc	_	_
39	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pa** |  | a pe |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cloud** | participle | tu Sa pa *not said here* | Day |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Note | the name |  |  |  | of the Dakota mother | tree rules |
| 4 | **suicide** |  | the Dakota mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **plunge** | gerund | Note *not said here* |  |  | the Falls of Anthony  St. |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over falls=Initial\_Location |

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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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