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title: These Indians are now commonly called the "Sioux"--a name given them… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: These Indians are now commonly called the "Sioux"--a name given them by the early French traders and _voyageurs_. " Who acts: name. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 4

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These Indians are now commonly called the "Sioux"--a name given them by the early French traders and \_voyageurs\_. "

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** call, give · **To what, where:** Indians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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:pg8122:2:5
# text = These Indians are now commonly called the "Sioux"--a name given them by the early French traders and _voyageurs_. "
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | this Indians |  |  | now | the Sioux *xcomp*; commonly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | participle | a name *not said here* | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | the early French traders and \_ voyageurs *obl:agent* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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