--- title: [Footnote 61: When a Dakota is sick, he thinks the spirit of an enem… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: [Footnote 61: When a Dakota is sick, he thinks the spirit of an enemy or some animal has entered into his body, and the principal business of the "medicine man"--_Wicasta Wakan_--is to cast out the "unclean spirit," with incantations and charms. Who acts: Dakota, Dakotas, principal business. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakota, Dakotas, principal business), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:21:26 # text = [Footnote 61: When a Dakota is sick, he thinks the spirit of an enemy or some animal has entered into his body, and the principal business of the "medicine man"--_Wicasta Wakan_--is to cast out the "unclean spirit," with incantations and charms. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Footnote footnote NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 61 61 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 When when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Dakota Dakota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 entered enter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Wicasta Wicasta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 40 Wakan Wakan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 cast cast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 unclean unclean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 53 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 incantations incantation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 appos _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 charms charm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a Dakota | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Dakotas | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **enter** | present · perfect · passive | | the spirit of a enemy or some animal | | Dakotas's body | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 4 | **is** | present | the principal business of the medicine man | | | | | the unclean spirit *obj*; cast *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/27/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/)