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title: No one term can express the full meaning of the Dakotas _Wakan_. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: No one term can express the full meaning of the Dakotas _Wakan_. Who acts: one term. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 107

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No one term can express the full meaning of the Dakotas \_Wakan\_.

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**Who acts:** one term · **What happens:** express, mean · **To what, where:** full meaning, Dakotas

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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 (one term), 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:pg8122:21:107
# text = No one term can express the full meaning of the Dakotas _Wakan_.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Wakan	Wakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | can | no one term | the full meaning of the Dakotas |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** |  |  | the Dakotas |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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