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title: The Dakotas call this game _Kan-soo Koo tay-pe_--shooting plum-stones. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dakotas call this game _Kan-soo Koo tay-pe_--shooting plum-stones. Who acts: Dakotas. 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 135

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The Dakotas call this game \_Kan-soo Koo tay-pe\_--shooting plum-stones.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** call, shoot · **To what, where:** game, plum stones · **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: who acts (Dakotas), 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:pg8122:21:135
# text = The Dakotas call this game _Kan-soo Koo tay-pe_--shooting plum-stones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Kan	Kan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	soo	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	Koo	Koo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	tay	tay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Dakotas | this game |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Recipient |
| 2 | **shoot** | gerund | the Dakotas *not said here* | plum stones |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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