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title: [Footnote 43: Tipsânna (often called _tipsinna_) is a wild prairie t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 43: Tipsânna (often called _tipsinna_) is a wild prairie turnip used for food by the Dakotas. Who acts: Footnote. 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 158

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\[Footnote 43: Tipsânna (often called \_tipsinna\_) is a wild prairie turnip used for food by the Dakotas.

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**Who acts:** Footnote · **What happens:** call, be, use · **To what, where:** Tipsânna, wild prairie turnip · **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 (Footnote), 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:pg8122:20:158
# text = [Footnote 43: Tipsânna (often called _tipsinna_) is a wild prairie turnip used for food by the Dakotas.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Tipsânna	Tipsânna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tipsinna	tipsinna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | Tipsânna *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Footnote | a wild prairie turnip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | a wild prairie turnip *not said here* |  |  |  | for food; the Dakotas *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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