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title: [Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth. Who acts: Te nâh gun. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 9

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\[Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth.

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**Who acts:** Te nâh gun · **What happens:** be, fasten, weave, sort · **To what, where:** board, sort, Footnote, basket

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Te nâh gun), 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:pg8122:23:9
# text = [Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	106	106	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
6	Te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ke	ke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	nâh	nâh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Te nâh gun | a board |  |  |  | upon one side | tree rules |
| 2 | **fasten** | present · passive |  | a sort of basket |  |  |  | of one side | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with thongs of skin or strips of cloth | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | basket |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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