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title: 1st Because they pertain particularly to the lakes and rivers to the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 1st Because they pertain particularly to the lakes and rivers to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota and ought to be appreciated here if anywhere. Who acts: Legends. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Picture
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 95

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1st Because they pertain particularly to the lakes and rivers to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota and ought to be appreciated here if anywhere.

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**Who acts:** Legends · **What happens:** pertain, appreciate · **To what, where:** 1st

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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 (Legends), 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:pg8122:2:97
# text = 1st Because they pertain particularly to the lakes and rivers to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota and ought to be appreciated here if anywhere.
1	1st	1st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pertain	pertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pertain** | present | Legends *= legend* | 1st |  |  |  | to the lakes and rivers; to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to lake=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **appreciate** | ought · passive | Legends *= legend* *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» |

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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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