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title: The degenerate remnants of that once powerful and warlike people sti… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The degenerate remnants of that once powerful and warlike people still linger around the forts and agencies of the Northwest, or chase the caribou and the bison on the banks of the Sascatchewan, but the Dakotas of old are no more. Who acts: degenerate remnants, Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 24

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The degenerate remnants of that once powerful and warlike people still linger around the forts and agencies of the Northwest, or chase the caribou and the bison on the banks of the Sascatchewan, but the Dakotas of old are no more.

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**Who acts:** degenerate remnants, Dakotas · **What happens:** linger, chase, not be · **To what, where:** forts, caribou, banks

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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 (degenerate remnants, Dakotas), 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:pg8122:2:25
# text = The degenerate remnants of that once powerful and warlike people still linger around the forts and agencies of the Northwest, or chase the caribou and the bison on the banks of the Sascatchewan, but the Dakotas of old are no more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	degenerate	degenerate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	remnants	remnant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	linger	linger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forts	fort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	caribou	caribou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sascatchewan	Sascatchewan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nmod	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	no	no	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | present | the degenerate remnants of that |  |  | the forts and agencies of the Northwest | still | powerful people *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fort=Location |
| 2 | **chase** | infinitive | the degenerate remnants of that *not said here* | the caribou and the bison |  | the banks of the Sascatchewan |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caribou=Theme on bank=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the Dakotas of old |  |  |  |  | more *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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