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title: [Footnote 21: All Northern Indians consider the East a mysterious an… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 21: All Northern Indians consider the East a mysterious and sacred land whence comes the sun. The Dakota name for the East is Wee-yo-heé-yan-pa--the sunrise. Who acts: Northern Indians, Dakota name. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawat
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 84

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\[Footnote 21: All Northern Indians consider the East a mysterious and sacred land whence comes the sun. The Dakota name for the East is Wee-yo-heé-yan-pa--the sunrise.

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**Who acts:** Northern Indians, Dakota name · **What happens:** consider, come, be · **To what, where:** East, sun., Wee heé yan pa, 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 (Northern Indians, Dakota name), 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:pg8122:20:84
# text = [Footnote 21: All Northern Indians consider the East a mysterious and sacred land whence comes the sun. The Dakota name for the East is Wee-yo-heé-yan-pa--the sunrise.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
16	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
27	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	heé	heé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	yan	yan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present | all Northern Indians | the East |  |  |  | a mysterious land *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent east=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | present | all Northern Indians *not said here* | the sun. |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun.=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Dakota name for the East | Wee heé yan pa and the sunrise |  |  |  | yo *nsubj* | 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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