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title: I have taken very little "poetic license" with their traditions; non… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I have taken very little "poetic license" with their traditions; none, whatever, with their customs and superstitions. 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 Superior., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 32

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I have taken very little "poetic license" with their traditions; none, whatever, with their customs and superstitions.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take

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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:pg8122:2:33
# text = I have taken very little "poetic license" with their traditions; none, whatever, with their customs and superstitions.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	license	license	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with people's traditions; poetic license *parataxis*; none *conj* | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |

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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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