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title: In their wars with other tribes they seldom slew women or children,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In their wars with other tribes they seldom slew women or children, and rarely sacrificed the lives of their prisoners. Who acts: Falls. 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 tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 15

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In their wars with other tribes they seldom slew women or children, and rarely sacrificed the lives of their prisoners.

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**Who acts:** Falls · **What happens:** slay, sacrifice, war · **To what, where:** women, wars, lives

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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 (Falls), 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:pg8122:2:16
# text = In their wars with other tribes they seldom slew women or children, and rarely sacrificed the lives of their prisoners.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past | Falls | women or children |  | Falls's wars |  | with other tribes; seldom *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent woman=Patient with tribe=Instrument |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | past | Falls *not said here* | the lives of Falls's prisoners |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **war** |  | Falls |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=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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