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title: Wiwâstè, the fairest Dakota maiden, The sweet-faced daughter of Litt… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiwâstè, the fairest Dakota maiden, The sweet-faced daughter of Little Crow, To her teepee [11] turned with her trophy laden-- The black robe trailing the virgin snow. Who acts: Wiwâstè, black robe. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its de
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 24

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Wiwâstè, the fairest Dakota maiden, The sweet-faced daughter of Little Crow, To her teepee \[11\] turned with her trophy laden-- The black robe trailing the virgin snow.

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**Who acts:** Wiwâstè, black robe · **What happens:** turn, lade, trail · **To what, where:** virgin snow

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. \[2\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiwâstè, black robe), 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:pg8122:6:24
# text = Wiwâstè, the fairest Dakota maiden, The sweet-faced daughter of Little Crow, To her teepee [11] turned with her trophy laden-- The black robe trailing the virgin snow.
1	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	To	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	trophy	trophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
32	trailing	trail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **turn** | past | Wiwâstè |  |  |  |  | with Wiwâstè's trophy; Wiwâstè's teepee *nsubj*; the black robe *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lade** | participle | Wiwâstè *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trail** | gerund | the black robe *not said here* | the virgin snow |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=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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