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title: The father of all the Thunder-birds--"Wakínyan Tanka"--or "Big Thund… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The father of all the Thunder-birds--"Wakínyan Tanka"--or "Big Thunder," has his teepee on a lofty mountain in the far West. Who acts: father. 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 c
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 119

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The father of all the Thunder-birds--"Wakínyan Tanka"--or "Big Thunder," has his teepee on a lofty mountain in the far West.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** teepee, lofty mountain

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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 (father), 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:pg8122:20:119
# text = The father of all the Thunder-birds--"Wakínyan Tanka"--or "Big Thunder," has his teepee on a lofty mountain in the far West.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Wakínyan	Wakínyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	Tanka	Tanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the father of all Thunder birds | bird's teepee |  | a lofty mountain in the far West |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teepee=Patient |

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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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