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title: December--Ta-hé-cha-psung-wee--the moon when deer shed their horns.] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: December--Ta-hé-cha-psung-wee--the moon when deer shed their horns.] Who acts: deer. 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 96

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December--Ta-hé-cha-psung-wee--the moon when deer shed their horns.\]

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**Who acts:** deer · **What happens:** shed · **To what, where:** horns, psung wee

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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 (deer), 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:pg8122:21:96
# text = December--Ta-hé-cha-psung-wee--the moon when deer shed their horns.]
1	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hé	hé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cha	cha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	psung	psung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shed** | past | deer | deer's horns |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Source |

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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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