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title: Note: The Dakota name for this beautiful lake is _Me-ne-a-tan-ka_--B… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Note: The Dakota name for this beautiful lake is _Me-ne-a-tan-ka_--Broad Water. Who acts: Note. 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 72

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Note: The Dakota name for this beautiful lake is \_Me-ne-a-tan-ka\_--Broad Water.

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**Who acts:** Note · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Me ne

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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 (Note), 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:pg8122:19:72
# text = Note: The Dakota name for this beautiful lake is _Me-ne-a-tan-ka_--Broad Water.
1	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Broad	Broad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Note | Me ne and a tan and Broad Water |  |  |  | a tan *conj*; Broad Water *conj* | tree rules |

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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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