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title: (Footnote Snelling's) Tales of the North west, p 21. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: (Footnote Snelling's) Tales of the North west, p 21. Who acts: you. 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 65

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(Footnote Snelling's) Tales of the North west, p 21.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** footnote · **To what, where:** Snelling Tales

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:20:65
# text = (Footnote Snelling's) Tales of the North west, p 21.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Snelling	Snelling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	west	west	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **footnote** | imperative | you *not said here* | Snelling Tales of the North |  |  |  | p *parataxis*; west *property* | 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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