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title: Hennepin was the first to describe this game in his "Description de… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hennepin was the first to describe this game in his "Description de la Louisiane," Paris, 1683, and he describes it very accurately. 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 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 133

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Hennepin was the first to describe this game in his "Description de la Louisiane," Paris, 1683, and he describes it very accurately.

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**Who acts:** Hennepin · **What happens:** be, describe · **To what, where:** game, Description

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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:pg8122:21:133
# text = Hennepin was the first to describe this game in his "Description de la Louisiane," Paris, 1683, and he describes it very accurately.
1	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	conj	_	_
15	Louisiane	Louisiane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	1683	1683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hennepin |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | this game |  | Hennepin's Description |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **describe** | present | Hennepin | game |  |  |  | accurately *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **describe** *in a quote* |  | Hennepin |  |  |  |  |  | nom description «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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