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title: [Footnote 75: When a Dakota brave wishes to "propose" to a "dusky ma… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 75: When a Dakota brave wishes to "propose" to a "dusky maid", he visits her teepee at night after she has retired, or rather, laid down in her robe to sleep. Who acts: Dakota brave wishes, maid, p.. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawa
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 118

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\[Footnote 75: When a Dakota brave wishes to "propose" to a "dusky maid", he visits her teepee at night after she has retired, or rather, laid down in her robe to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Dakota brave wishes, maid, p. · **What happens:** propose, visit, retire, lay down, sleep · **To what, where:** dusky maid, teepee, robe, Footnote

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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 (Dakota brave wishes, maid, p.), 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:pg8122:21:118
# text = [Footnote 75: When a Dakota brave wishes to "propose" to a "dusky maid", he visits her teepee at night after she has retired, or rather, laid down in her robe to sleep.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	propose	propose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a Dakota brave wishes |  | a dusky maid |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient |
| 2 | **visit** | present | maid | p.'s teepee |  |  | night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teepee=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **retire** | present · perfect | p. |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay down** | participle | p. *not said here* |  |  | p.'s robe |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in robe=Destination |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | p. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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