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title: [Footnote 14: Mah-tó--The polar bear--_ursus maritimus_. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 14: Mah-tó--The polar bear--_ursus maritimus_. 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 54

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\[Footnote 14: Mah-tó--The polar bear--\_ursus maritimus\_.

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**To what, where:** 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:pg8122:20:54
# text = [Footnote 14: Mah-tó--The polar bear--_ursus maritimus_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Mah	Mah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tó	tó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ursus	ursus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	maritimus	maritimus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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