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title: [Footnote 8: Wah-pah-sâh was the hereditary name of a long and illus… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 8: Wah-pah-sâh was the hereditary name of a long and illustrious lineof Dakota Chiefs. Who acts: Wah pah sâh. 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 36

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\[Footnote 8: Wah-pah-sâh was the hereditary name of a long and illustrious lineof Dakota Chiefs.

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**Who acts:** Wah pah sâh · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hereditary name, 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: who acts (Wah pah sâh), 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:pg8122:20:36
# text = [Footnote 8: Wah-pah-sâh was the hereditary name of a long and illustrious lineof Dakota Chiefs.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
5	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pah	pah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sâh	sâh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	lineof	lineof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wah pah sâh | the hereditary name |  |  |  | of a long lineof | tree rules |

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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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