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title: The skéskas [46] fly and the melted snows In lakelets lie on the dim… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The skéskas [46] fly and the melted snows In lakelets lie on the dimpled prairie. Who acts: skéskas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 145

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The skéskas \[46\] fly and the melted snows In lakelets lie on the dimpled prairie.

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**Who acts:** skéskas · **What happens:** melt, lie, dimple · **To what, where:** dimpled prairie

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skéskas), 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:pg8122:7:145
# text = The skéskas [46] fly and the melted snows In lakelets lie on the dimpled prairie.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skéskas	skéska	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	46	46	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	lakelets	lakelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dimpled	dimple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the skéskas  46 fly and the melted snows in lakelets |  |  | the dimpled prairie |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on prairie=Location |
| 3 | **dimple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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