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title: [Footnote 20: For all their sacred feasts the Dakotas kindle a new f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 20: For all their sacred feasts the Dakotas kindle a new fire called "The Virgin Fire." Who acts: Dakotas, new fire. 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 78

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\[Footnote 20: For all their sacred feasts the Dakotas kindle a new fire called "The Virgin Fire."

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**Who acts:** Dakotas, new fire · **What happens:** kindle, call · **To what, where:** new fire, Virgin Fire, Footnote · **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: who acts (Dakotas, new fire), 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:pg8122:20:78
# text = [Footnote 20: For all their sacred feasts the Dakotas kindle a new fire called "The Virgin Fire."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	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 | **kindle** | infinitive | the Dakotas | a new fire |  |  |  | for lodge's sacred feasts | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for feast=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a new fire *not said here* | the Virgin Fire |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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