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title: Heyóka is universally feared and reverenced by the Dakotas, but so s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Heyóka is universally feared and reverenced by the Dakotas, but so severe is the ordeal that the Heyóka Wacípee (the dance to Heyóka) is now rarely celebrated. Who acts: severe ordeal. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 71

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Heyóka is universally feared and reverenced by the Dakotas, but so severe is the ordeal that the Heyóka Wacípee (the dance to Heyóka) is now rarely celebrated.

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**Who acts:** severe ordeal · **What happens:** fear, reverence, be, celebrate · **To what, where:** Heyóka, severe ordeal, Heyóka Wacípee

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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 (severe ordeal), 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:pg8122:20:71
# text = Heyóka is universally feared and reverenced by the Dakotas, but so severe is the ordeal that the Heyóka Wacípee (the dance to Heyóka) is now rarely celebrated.
1	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	reverenced	reverence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wacípee	Wacípee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present · passive |  | Heyóka |  |  |  | universally *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reverence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the Dakotas | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the severe ordeal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **celebrate** | present · passive | the severe ordeal *not said here* | the Heyóka Wacípee |  |  | now | rarely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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