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title: Are the steps of the enemy nigh, --of the crafty and creeping Ojibwa… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Are the steps of the enemy nigh, --of the crafty and creeping Ojibways? A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 135

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Are the steps of the enemy nigh, --of the crafty and creeping Ojibways?

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**What happens:** be, creep · **To what, where:** steps, Ojibways

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:14:135
# text = Are the steps of the enemy nigh, --of the crafty and creeping Ojibways?
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the steps |  |  |  | of the enemy | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund |  | Ojibways |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ojibway=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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