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title: The Dakota "Medicine-Man" can do the "rope-trick" of the Hindoo magi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dakota "Medicine-Man" can do the "rope-trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection. Who acts: Dakota. 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 158

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The Dakota "Medicine-Man" can do the "rope-trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection.

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**Who acts:** Dakota · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** rope trick

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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 (Dakota), 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:pg8122:21:158
# text = The Dakota "Medicine-Man" can do the "rope-trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	perfection	perfection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | the Dakota | the rope trick |  |  |  | of the Hindoo magician to perfection | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |

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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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