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title: [Footnote 33: Pronounced Tah-tâhn-kah--Bison or Buffalo.] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 33: Pronounced Tah-tâhn-kah--Bison or Buffalo.] 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 125

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\[Footnote 33: Pronounced Tah-tâhn-kah--Bison or Buffalo.\]

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**What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** Tah, Footnote

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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: 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:pg8122:20:125
# text = [Footnote 33: Pronounced Tah-tâhn-kah--Bison or Buffalo.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
6	Tah	Tah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tâhn	tâhn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	kah	kah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Bison	Bison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | participle |  | Tah |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tah=Result |

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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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