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title: The brilliant defeat of Custer, by Sitting Bull and his braves, was… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The brilliant defeat of Custer, by Sitting Bull and his braves, was their last grand rally against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts. Who acts: brilliant defeat. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictu
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 25

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The brilliant defeat of Custer, by Sitting Bull and his braves, was their last grand rally against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts.

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**Who acts:** brilliant defeat · **What happens:** sit, be, defeat · **To what, where:** Bull, last grand rally, Custer

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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 (brilliant defeat), 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:pg8122:2:26
# text = The brilliant defeat of Custer, by Sitting Bull and his braves, was their last grand rally against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Custer	Custer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rally	rally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	resistless	resistless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the brilliant defeat of Custer *not said here* | Bull and Custer's braves |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bull=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the brilliant defeat of Custer | braves's last grand rally |  |  |  | against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts; braves *= brave* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **defeat** |  |  | Custer |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=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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