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title: [a] The small island of rock a few rods below the Falls, was called… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] The small island of rock a few rods below the Falls, was called by the Dakotas Wanagee We-ta—-Spirit-Island. Who acts: Dakotas Wanagee. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 11

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\[a\] The small island of rock a few rods below the Falls, was called by the Dakotas Wanagee We-ta—-Spirit-Island.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas Wanagee · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** small island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dakotas Wanagee), 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:pg8122:16:11
# text = [a] The small island of rock a few rods below the Falls, was called by the Dakotas Wanagee We-ta—-Spirit-Island.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	below	below	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wanagee	Wanagee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ta	ta	X	GW	_	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	—	X	NN	_	24	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive | the Dakotas Wanagee | the small island of rock  a few rods below the Falls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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