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title: (In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah,"--"e" the so… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: (In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah,"--"e" the sound of "a,"--"i" the sound of "e" and "u" the sound of "oo." Who acts: pronouncing Dakota words. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 74

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(In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah,"--"e" the sound of "a,"--"i" the sound of "e" and "u" the sound of "oo."

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**Who acts:** pronouncing Dakota words · **What happens:** pronounce, give · **To what, where:** sound

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pronouncing Dakota words), 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:pg8122:9:74
# text = (In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah,"--"e" the sound of "a,"--"i" the sound of "e" and "u" the sound of "oo."
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	pronouncing	pronounce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	u	u	NOUN	NN	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | pronouncing Dakota words | a sound of e and the sound of a i and the sound of e and u and the sound of oo |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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