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title: The Dakota god of the woods--an unknown animal said to resemble a ma… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dakota god of the woods--an unknown animal said to resemble a man, which the Dakotas worship; perhaps, the monkey." Who acts: unknown animal, Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 112

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The Dakota god of the woods--an unknown animal said to resemble a man, which the Dakotas worship; perhaps, the monkey."

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**Who acts:** unknown animal, Dakotas · **What happens:** say, resemble, worship · **To what, where:** monkey, man, Dakota god · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unknown animal, 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:pg8122:20:112
# text = The Dakota god of the woods--an unknown animal said to resemble a man, which the Dakotas worship; perhaps, the monkey."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	god	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	worship	worship	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a unknown animal | the monkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | to-infinitive | a unknown animal *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **worship** | present | the Dakotas | a man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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