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title: Schoolcraft calls her "_Ampata_ Sapa." — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Schoolcraft calls her "_Ampata_ Sapa." Who acts: Schoolcraft. 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 2

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Schoolcraft calls her "\_Ampata\_ Sapa."

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**Who acts:** Schoolcraft · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** pe · **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 (Schoolcraft), 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:pg8122:16:2
# text = Schoolcraft calls her "_Ampata_ Sapa."
1	Schoolcraft	Schoolcraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ampata	Ampata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Sapa	Sapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Schoolcraft |  | pe |  |  | Ampata Sapa *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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