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title: [Footnote 24: "Ho" is an exclamation of approval—-yea, yes, bravo.] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 24: "Ho" is an exclamation of approval—-yea, yes, bravo.] Who acts: Footnote. 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 94

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\[Footnote 24: "Ho" is an exclamation of approval—-yea, yes, bravo.\]

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**Who acts:** Footnote · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** exclamation

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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 (Footnote), 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:pg8122:20:94
# text = [Footnote 24: "Ho" is an exclamation of approval—-yea, yes, bravo.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	—	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	bravo	bravo	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Footnote | a exclamation |  |  |  | approval — *appos* | 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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