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title: The Algonkins call the earth "_Me-suk-kum-mik-o-kwa_"--the great-gra… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Algonkins call the earth "_Me-suk-kum-mik-o-kwa_"--the great-grandmother of all. Who acts: Algonkins. 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 80

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The Algonkins call the earth "\_Me-suk-kum-mik-o-kwa\_"--the great-grandmother of all.

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**Who acts:** Algonkins · **What happens:** call, \_ · **To what, where:** earth, Me · **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 (Algonkins), 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:pg8122:21:80
# text = The Algonkins call the earth "_Me-suk-kum-mik-o-kwa_"--the great-grandmother of all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Algonkins	algonkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	suk	suk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	kum	kum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	mik	mik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	kwa	kwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the Algonkins | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent earth=Recipient |
| 2 | **\_** *in a quote* | past | the Algonkins *not said here* | Me |  |  |  | suk kum mik *parataxis* | 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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