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title: So they called it _Wa-na-gee Pa-ze-dan_--Spirit Knob. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: So they called it _Wa-na-gee Pa-ze-dan_--Spirit Knob. Who acts: Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 105

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So they called it \_Wa-na-gee Pa-ze-dan\_--Spirit Knob.

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

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. 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:pg8122:19:105
# text = So they called it _Wa-na-gee Pa-ze-dan_--Spirit Knob.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	_	_	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	na	na	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	gee	gee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ze	ze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Knob	Knob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Dakotas *= dakota* | yun |  |  |  | \_ Wa na gee and ze dan; Spirit Knob *conj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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