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title: (The numerals refer to notes in the Appendix.) — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: (The numerals refer to notes in the Appendix.) Who acts: numerals. 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 6

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(The numerals refer to notes in the Appendix.)

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**Who acts:** numerals · **What happens:** refer · **To what, where:** Appendix

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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 (numerals), 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:pg8122:16:6
# text = (The numerals refer to notes in the Appendix.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	numerals	numeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Appendix	Appendix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | the numerals |  |  | the Appendix |  | to notes | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to note=Co-Theme |

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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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