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title: For many years their chiefs and head men successfully resisted the a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For many years their chiefs and head men successfully resisted the attempts to introduce spirituous liquors among them. Who acts: chiefs. 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 tr
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 16

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For many years their chiefs and head men successfully resisted the attempts to introduce spirituous liquors among them.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** resist, introduce · **To what, where:** attempts, spirituous liquors

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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 (chiefs), 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:pg8122:2:17
# text = For many years their chiefs and head men successfully resisted the attempts to introduce spirituous liquors among them.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	resisted	resist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	spirituous	spirituous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	liquors	liquor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resist** | past | Falls's chiefs and head men | the attempts |  |  | year | successfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | Falls's chiefs and head men *not said here* | spirituous liquors |  |  |  | among Falls | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient |

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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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