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title: [b] Wee tah Wah-stay--Beautiful Island,--the Dakota name for Nicolle… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] Wee tah Wah-stay--Beautiful Island,--the Dakota name for Nicollet Island just above the Falls. Who acts: you. 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 41

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\[b\] Wee tah Wah-stay--Beautiful Island,--the Dakota name for Nicollet Island just above the Falls.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stay · **To what, where:** Beautiful Island

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:17:41
# text = [b] Wee tah Wah-stay--Beautiful Island,--the Dakota name for Nicollet Island just above the Falls.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
5	tah	tah	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Nicollet	Nicollet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | Beautiful Island |  |  |  | the Dakota name for Nicollet Island *obl*; the Falls *parataxis* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme island=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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