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title: In the following Dakota Legends I have endeavored to faithfully repr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the following Dakota Legends I have endeavored to faithfully represent many of the customs and superstitions, and some of the traditions, of that people. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake S
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 31

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In the following Dakota Legends I have endeavored to faithfully represent many of the customs and superstitions, and some of the traditions, of that people.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** follow, endeavor, represent · **To what, where:** Dakota Legends, many

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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 (I), 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:pg8122:2:32
# text = In the following Dakota Legends I have endeavored to faithfully represent many of the customs and superstitions, and some of the traditions, of that people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
4	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **endeavor** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the Dakota Legends |  | of some traditions; of that people | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | many of the customs and superstitions |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme |

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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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