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title: See Riggs' "Tah-koo Wah-kân," pp. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: See Riggs' "Tah-koo Wah-kân," pp. Who acts: you. 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 69

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See Riggs' "Tah-koo Wah-kân," pp.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** koo kân

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:21:69
# text = See Riggs' "Tah-koo Wah-kân," pp.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Riggs	Riggs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tah	Tah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	koo	koo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	kân	kân	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Riggs's koo kân and pp |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kân=Stimulus |

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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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