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title: The Wa-zí-ya of the Dakotas is substantially the name as "_Ka-be-bón… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wa-zí-ya of the Dakotas is substantially the name as "_Ka-be-bón-ik-ka_"--the "Winter-maker" of the Ojibways.] Who acts: Wa zí ya, Ka. 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 claus
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 9

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The Wa-zí-ya of the Dakotas is substantially the name as "\_Ka-be-bón-ik-ka\_"--the "Winter-maker" of the Ojibways.\]

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**Who acts:** Wa zí ya, Ka · **What happens:** be, \_ · **To what, where:** name, bón ik

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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 (Wa zí ya, Ka), 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:pg8122:20:9
# text = The Wa-zí-ya of the Dakotas is substantially the name as "_Ka-be-bón-ik-ka_"--the "Winter-maker" of the Ojibways.]
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	zí	zí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	substantially	substantially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bón	bón	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ik	ik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Ojibways	Ojibway	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Wa zí ya of the Dakotas | the name |  |  |  | the Winter maker of the Ojibways *appos*; substantially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bón ik |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **\_** *in a quote* |  | Ka | the name *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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