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title: E-né-pee--vapor bath is used as a purification preparatory to the sa… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: E-né-pee--vapor bath is used as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 1

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E-né-pee--vapor bath is used as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** E-né-pee vapor bath

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:22:1
# text = E-né-pee--vapor bath is used as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts.
1	E-né-pee	e-né-pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	preparatory	preparatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | E-né-pee vapor bath |  |  |  | as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as preparatory=Attribute |

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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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