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title: The lake nearest Calhoun on the north--Lake of the Isles--they calle… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The lake nearest Calhoun on the north--Lake of the Isles--they called Wí-ta Mdé--Island-Lake. 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 146

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The lake nearest Calhoun on the north--Lake of the Isles--they called Wí-ta Mdé--Island-Lake.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Wí · **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:pg8122:21:146
# text = The lake nearest Calhoun on the north--Lake of the Isles--they called Wí-ta Mdé--Island-Lake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	Calhoun	Calhoun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	Wí	Wí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ta	ta	X	GW	_	15	xcomp	_	_
19	Mdé	Mdé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Dakotas *= dakota* |  | Wí |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wí=Recipient |

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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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