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title: 31: Kah-nó-te-dahn--The little, mysterious dweller in the woods. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 31: Kah-nó-te-dahn--The little, mysterious dweller in the woods. Who acts: Kah. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 108

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31: Kah-nó-te-dahn--The little, mysterious dweller in the woods.

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**Who acts:** Kah · **What happens:** dahn · **To what, where:** 31

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kah), 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:pg8122:20:108
# text = 31: Kah-nó-te-dahn--The little, mysterious dweller in the woods.
1	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	Kah	Kah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nó	nó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dahn	dahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dweller	dweller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dahn** |  | Kah |  |  |  |  | the little mysterious dweller in the woods *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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