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title: Many separate bands, all having a common origin and speaking a commo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Many separate bands, all having a common origin and speaking a common tongue, were united under this name. Who acts: all, Many separate bands. 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 dependen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 6

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Many separate bands, all having a common origin and speaking a common tongue, were united under this name.

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**Who acts:** all, Many separate bands · **What happens:** have, speak, be · **To what, where:** common origin, common tongue, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (all, Many separate bands), 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:pg8122:2:7
# text = Many separate bands, all having a common origin and speaking a common tongue, were united under this name.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | all | a common origin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | all *not said here* | a common tongue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Many separate bands |  |  | this name |  | united *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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