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title: [Footnote 49: Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 49: Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on many of the sandy prairies in Minnesota, is sometimes called "tea-plant," "sage-plant," and "red-root willow." Who acts: annual shrub, Prairie. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hia
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 1

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\[Footnote 49: Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on many of the sandy prairies in Minnesota, is sometimes called "tea-plant," "sage-plant," and "red-root willow."

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**Who acts:** annual shrub, Prairie · **What happens:** abound, call, pride · **To what, where:** many sandy prairies, 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (annual shrub, Prairie), 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:pg8122:21:1
# text = [Footnote 49: Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on many of the sandy prairies in Minnesota, is sometimes called "tea-plant," "sage-plant," and "red-root willow."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	49	49	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Prairie	Prairie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | present | this annual shrub |  |  | the many sandy prairies in Minnesota |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Location |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | Footnote and Prairie's Pride and this annual shrub |  |  |  | sage plant and root willow *obl*; tea plant *xcomp*; sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **pride** |  | Prairie |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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