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title: If it is proper to call the young of dogs and wolves _pups_, it is e… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: If it is proper to call the young of dogs and wolves _pups_, it is equally proper to so call the young of foxes.] Who acts: canis. 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 25

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If it is proper to call the young of dogs and wolves \_pups\_, it is equally proper to so call the young of foxes.\]

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**Who acts:** canis · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** young · **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 (canis), 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:pg8122:21:25
# text = If it is proper to call the young of dogs and wolves _pups_, it is equally proper to so call the young of foxes.]
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pups	pup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | canis |  |  |  |  | proper *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | canis *not said here* | the young of dogs and wolves |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | canis |  |  |  |  | equally, proper *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | canis *not said here* | the young of foxes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=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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