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title: [Footnote 71: The Dakotas reckon their months by _moon_. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 71: The Dakotas reckon their months by _moon_. Who acts: Dakotas. 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 82

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\[Footnote 71: The Dakotas reckon their months by \_moon\_.

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**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** reckon · **To what, where:** 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 (Dakotas), 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:pg8122:21:82
# text = [Footnote 71: The Dakotas reckon their months by _moon_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | the Dakotas | Footnote |  |  | month | by moon | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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