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title: Hennepin writes his name— Ouasicoudé and translates it--the "Pierced… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hennepin writes his name— Ouasicoudé and translates it--the "Pierced Pine." Who acts: Hennepin. 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 114

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Hennepin writes his name— Ouasicoudé and translates it--the "Pierced Pine."

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**Who acts:** Hennepin · **What happens:** write, translate, pierce, name · **To what, where:** name

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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 (Hennepin), 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:pg8122:21:114
# text = Hennepin writes his name— Ouasicoudé and translates it--the "Pierced Pine."
1	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	—	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Ouasicoudé	Ouasicoudé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	translates	translate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Pine	Pine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Hennepin | Hennepin's name |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** | present | Hennepin *not said here* | name |  |  |  | the Pierced Pine *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **pierce** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** |  | Hennepin |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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