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title: Great Tâku-Skan-Skan [51] will testify! — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Great Tâku-Skan-Skan [51] will testify! Who acts: Great Tâku. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 22

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Great Tâku-Skan-Skan \[51\] will testify!

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**Who acts:** Great Tâku · **What happens:** testify

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Tâku), 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:pg8122:8:22
# text = Great Tâku-Skan-Skan [51] will testify!
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Tâku	Tâku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Skan	Skan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Skan	Skan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	testify	testify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **testify** *speech: other* | future | Great Tâku and Skan and Skan |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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