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title: When Father Hennepin was at Mille Lacs in 1679-80, Wazi-kuté was the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When Father Hennepin was at Mille Lacs in 1679-80, Wazi-kuté was the head Chief (Itâncan) of the band of Isantees. Who acts: Father. 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 113

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When Father Hennepin was at Mille Lacs in 1679-80, Wazi-kuté was the head Chief (Itâncan) of the band of Isantees.

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**Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mille Lacs, head Chief

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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 (Father), 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:pg8122:21:113
# text = When Father Hennepin was at Mille Lacs in 1679-80, Wazi-kuté was the head Chief (Itâncan) of the band of Isantees.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mille	Mille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lacs	lac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1679-80	1679-80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Wazi	Wazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	kuté	kuté	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Itâncan	Itâncan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Isantees	Isantees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Father |  |  | Mille Lacs |  | in 1679-80; of the band of Isantees | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the head Chief |  |  |  | Wazi kuté *nmod:desc*; Itâncan *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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