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title: The first-born _daughter_ of a Dakota is called Winona; the second,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The first-born _daughter_ of a Dakota is called Winona; the second, Hârpen; the third, Hârpstinâ; the fourth. 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 32

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The first-born \_daughter\_ of a Dakota is called Winona; the second, Hârpen; the third, Hârpstinâ; the fourth.

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**What happens:** bear, call · **To what, where:** born daughter · **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: 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:pg8122:20:32
# text = The first-born _daughter_ of a Dakota is called Winona; the second, Hârpen; the third, Hârpstinâ; the fourth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Hârpen	Hârpen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Hârpstinâ	Hârpstinâ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the born daughter of a Dakota |  |  |  | Winona *xcomp*; the fourth *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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