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title: [Footnote 78: Wa'tanka--contraction of Wa-kan Tanka--Great Spirit. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 78: Wa'tanka--contraction of Wa-kan Tanka--Great Spirit. 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 140

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\[Footnote 78: Wa'tanka--contraction of Wa-kan Tanka--Great Spirit.

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**What happens:** contract · **To what, where:** Footnote, Wa

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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:pg8122:21:140
# text = [Footnote 78: Wa'tanka--contraction of Wa-kan Tanka--Great Spirit.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	78	78	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Wa'tanka	Wa'tanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	contraction	contraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kan	kan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
12	Tanka	Tanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **contract** |  |  | Wa |  |  |  |  | nom contraction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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