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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 96

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2d Because many of our people are competent to judge whether my representations of Dakota customs, life, traditions, and superstitions are correct or not and at the same time the reading public of the North west is as intelligent and discriminating as that of any other portion of our country.

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**Who acts:** many, superstitions, reading public, my · **What happens:** be, judge, read, discriminate, represent · **To what, where:** 2d, Dakota customs

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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 (many, superstitions, reading public, my), 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:pg8122:2:98
# text = 2d Because many of our people are competent to judge whether my representations of Dakota customs, life, traditions, and superstitions are correct or not and at the same time the reading public of the North west is as intelligent and discriminating as that of any other portion of our country.
1	2d	2d	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	competent	competent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	representations	representation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	west	west	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	discriminating	discriminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many of our people | 2d *not said here* |  |  |  | competent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** | to-infinitive | many of our people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whether my representations of Dakota customs and life and traditions | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | superstitions |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the reading public of the North |  |  |  | time | intelligent, west *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **discriminate** | gerund | the reading public of the North *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as that of any other portion of our country | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **represent** |  | my | Dakota customs and life and traditions |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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