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title: [a] Or Capa Ska--White beaver. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] Or Capa Ska--White beaver. 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 9

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\[a\] Or Capa Ska--White beaver.

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**To what, where:** Capa

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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: 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:pg8122:17:9
# text = [a] Or Capa Ska--White beaver.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Capa	Capa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Ska	Ska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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