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title: [a] See Hennepin's Description of Louisiana by Shea pp 243 and 256. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] See Hennepin's Description of Louisiana by Shea pp 243 and 256. Who acts: Shea pp. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 85

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\[a\] See Hennepin's Description of Louisiana by Shea pp 243 and 256.

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**Who acts:** Shea pp · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** Description, See Hennepin

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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 (Shea pp), 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:pg8122:9:85
# text = [a] See Hennepin's Description of Louisiana by Shea pp 243 and 256.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	See	See	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Louisiana	Louisiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Shea	Shea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	243	243	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	256	256	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **describe** |  | Shea pp | a See Hennepin |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: poss=patient by=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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