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title: The true Dakota word is Mdó tè--applied to the mouth of a river flow… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The true Dakota word is Mdó tè--applied to the mouth of a river flowing into another,--also to the outlet of a lake.] Who acts: true Dakota word, river. 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 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 12

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The true Dakota word is Mdó tè--applied to the mouth of a river flowing into another,--also to the outlet of a lake.\]

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**Who acts:** true Dakota word, river · **What happens:** be, apply, flow · **To what, where:** Mdó tè, another

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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 (true Dakota word, river), 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:pg8122:20:12
# text = The true Dakota word is Mdó tè--applied to the mouth of a river flowing into another,--also to the outlet of a lake.]
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Mdó	Mdó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tè	tè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	outlet	outlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the true Dakota word | Mdó tè and the outlet of a lake |  |  |  | the outlet of a lake *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  | Mdó tè and the outlet of a lake *not said here* |  |  |  | to the mouth of a river | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | a river *not said here* |  |  | another |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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