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title: The grandfather, whom I, for short, call Wakâwa, died the death of a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The grandfather, whom I, for short, call Wakâwa, died the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways (commonly called Chippewas)--the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas. Who acts: grandfather, Wakâwa, Ojibways. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 23

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The grandfather, whom I, for short, call Wakâwa, died the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways (commonly called Chippewas)--the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, Wakâwa, Ojibways · **What happens:** call, die · **To what, where:** death, Chippewas · **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 (grandfather, Wakâwa, Ojibways), 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:pg8122:20:23
# text = The grandfather, whom I, for short, call Wakâwa, died the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways (commonly called Chippewas)--the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past | Wakâwa | the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways and the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the Ojibways and the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas *not said here* | Chippewas |  |  |  | commonly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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