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title: It is the gazelle, or prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas Tato-k… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the gazelle, or prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas Tato-ka-dan--little antelope. Who acts: note. 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 151

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It is the gazelle, or prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas Tato-ka-dan--little antelope.

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**Who acts:** note · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** gazelle · **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 (note), 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:pg8122:21:151
# text = It is the gazelle, or prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas Tato-ka-dan--little antelope.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	Tato	Tato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | note | the gazelle or prairie antelope |  |  |  | prairie antelope *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the gazelle or prairie antelope *not said here* |  |  |  | by the dan  Dakotas and little antelope | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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