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title: _Nadouecioux_ was a name given the Dakotas generally by the early Fr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: _Nadouecioux_ was a name given the Dakotas generally by the early French traders and the Ojibways. Who acts: Nadouecioux, name. 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 53

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\_Nadouecioux\_ was a name given the Dakotas generally by the early French traders and the Ojibways.

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**Who acts:** Nadouecioux, name · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** name, Dakotas

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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 (Nadouecioux, name), 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:pg8122:22:53
# text = _Nadouecioux_ was a name given the Dakotas generally by the early French traders and the Ojibways.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nadouecioux	Nadouecioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nadouecioux | a name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle | a name *not said here* | the Dakotas |  |  |  | by the early French traders and the Ojibways; generally *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dakota=Theme |

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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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