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title: [a] The Dakotas called the Jesuit priests "Black Robes" from the col… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] The Dakotas called the Jesuit priests "Black Robes" from the color of their vestments. Who acts: Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 40

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\[a\] The Dakotas called the Jesuit priests "Black Robes" from the color of their vestments.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Jesuit priests, color · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas), 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:pg8122:17:40
# text = [a] The Dakotas called the Jesuit priests "Black Robes" from the color of their vestments.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Jesuit	Jesuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	vestments	vestment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | a Dakotas | the Jesuit priests |  | the color of Mihihna's vestments |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from color=Source |

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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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