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title: Here _Ka-be-bon-ikka_--the Ojibway's god of storms, flaps his huge w… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Here _Ka-be-bon-ikka_--the Ojibway's god of storms, flaps his huge wings and makes the Thunder. Who acts: Ka. 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 24

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Here \_Ka-be-bon-ikka\_--the Ojibway's god of storms, flaps his huge wings and makes the Thunder.

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** be, flap, make · **To what, where:** bon ikka, huge wings, Thunder

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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: who acts (Ka), 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:pg8122:22:24
# text = Here _Ka-be-bon-ikka_--the Ojibway's god of storms, flaps his huge wings and makes the Thunder.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ikka	ikka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	flaps	flap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | bon ikka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flap** | present | Ka | Ka's huge wings |  | here |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | Ka *not said here* | the Thunder |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thunder=Product |

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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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