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title: [Footnote 51: Tâhkoo-skahng-skang.--This deity is supposed to be inv… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 51: Tâhkoo-skahng-skang.--This deity is supposed to be invisible, yet everywhere present; he is an avenger and a searcher of hearts. Who acts: Eastman. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 7

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\[Footnote 51: Tâhkoo-skahng-skang.--This deity is supposed to be invisible, yet everywhere present; he is an avenger and a searcher of hearts.

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**Who acts:** Eastman · **What happens:** suppose, be · **To what, where:** deity, avenger, Footnote

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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 (Eastman), 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:pg8122:21:7
# text = [Footnote 51: Tâhkoo-skahng-skang.--This deity is supposed to be invisible, yet everywhere present; he is an avenger and a searcher of hearts.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Tâhkoo	Tâhkoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	skahng	skahng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	skang	skang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	searcher	searcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | this deity |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Eastman | a avenger and a searcher of hearts |  |  |  | a searcher of hearts *conj* | 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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