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title: It is the _Pish-tah-te-koosh_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the _Pish-tah-te-koosh_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assinneboin." 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 eve
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 152

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It is the \_Pish-tah-te-koosh\_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assinneboin."

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**Who acts:** note · **What happens:** be, reckon · **To what, where:** koosh \_, fleetest animal, prairie country · **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:pg8122:21:152
# text = It is the _Pish-tah-te-koosh_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assinneboin."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Pish	Pish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tah	tah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	koosh	koosh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fleetest	fleet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Assinneboin	Assinneboin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	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 koosh \_ |  |  |  | of the Algonkin tribes; Pish *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** *in a quote* | past |  | the fleetest animal |  | the prairie country about the Assinneboin |  |  | tree rules |

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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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