--- title: April--Magâ-okâ-da-wee--the moon when the geese lay eggs; also calle… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: April--Magâ-okâ-da-wee--the moon when the geese lay eggs; also called Wokâda-wee--egg-moon, and sometimes Wató-papee-wee, the canoe moon, or moon when the streams become free from ice. Who acts: geese, da wee, streams. 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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 (geese, da wee, streams), 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:pg8122:21:88 # text = April--Magâ-okâ-da-wee--the moon when the geese lay eggs; also called Wokâda-wee--egg-moon, and sometimes Wató-papee-wee, the canoe moon, or moon when the streams become free from ice. 1 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Magâ Magâ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 okâ okâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 da da NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 21 Wokâda Wokâda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 31 Wató Wató PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 papee papee NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 43 when when SCONJ WRB _ 46 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 47 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | the geese | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **call** | participle | da wee April and Wató papee wee and the canoe moon or moon *not said here* | egg moon | | | | Wokâda *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | present | the streams | | | | | free *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/89/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/)