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title: In form and features, in language and traditions, they are distinct… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In form and features, in language and traditions, they are distinct from all other Indian tribes. Who acts: bands. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 11

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In form and features, in language and traditions, they are distinct from all other Indian tribes.

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**Who acts:** bands · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** form

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bands), 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:pg8122:2:12
# text = In form and features, in language and traditions, they are distinct from all other Indian tribes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bands *= band* |  |  | form and features |  | from all other Indian tribes; distinct *property* | 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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