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title: They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, _and keep their… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, _and keep their word strictly_." Who acts: Dakotas, wild rice. 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 40

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They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, \_and keep their word strictly\_."

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**Who acts:** Dakotas, wild rice · **What happens:** have, use, keep, word · **To what, where:** false oats, little canoes, word

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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 (Dakotas, wild rice), 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:pg8122:22:40
# text = They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, _and keep their word strictly_."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dakotas *= dakota* | false oats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | wild rice | little canoes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | wild rice *not said here* | Dakotas's word |  |  |  | strictly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | Dakotas *= dakota* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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