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title: [Footnote 54: The Dakotas cail the Evening Star the "_Virgin Star_,"… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 54: The Dakotas cail the Evening Star the "_Virgin Star_," and believe it to be the spirit of the virgin wronged at the feast.] 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 13

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\[Footnote 54: The Dakotas cail the Evening Star the "\_Virgin Star\_," and believe it to be the spirit of the virgin wronged at the feast.\]

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**What happens:** believe, be, wrong · **To what, where:** Star, spirit, virgin, feast, 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: 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:pg8122:21:13
# text = [Footnote 54: The Dakotas cail the Evening Star the "_Virgin Star_," and believe it to be the spirit of the virgin wronged at the feast.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	cail	cail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Evening	Evening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | infinitive |  | Star |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the spirit |  |  |  | of the virgin | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrong** | participle |  | the virgin *not said here* |  | the feast |  |  | 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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