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title: If these _Legends_ be appreciated and approved by our own people who… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 97

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If these \_Legends\_ be appreciated and approved by our own people who are familiar with the scenery described and more or less, with the customs, traditions and superstitions of the Dakotas, and if beyond that these poems shall stand the test of candid criticism I may give them a wider publication.

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**Who acts:** own people, scenery, poems, I · **What happens:** appreciate, approve, be, describe, stand, give · **To what, where:** Legends, test, wider publication, candid criticism

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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 (own people, scenery, poems, 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:pg8122:2:99
# text = If these _Legends_ be appreciated and approved by our own people who are familiar with the scenery described and more or less, with the customs, traditions and superstitions of the Dakotas, and if beyond that these poems shall stand the test of candid criticism I may give them a wider publication.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scenery	scenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
39	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	csubj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	candid	candid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	56	amod	_	_
56	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appreciate** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive | our own people | this Legends |  |  |  | with the customs and traditions and superstitions of the Dakotas | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **approve** | participle | our own people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | our own people |  |  |  |  | familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **describe** | past | the scenery |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | this poems | the test of candid criticism |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus |
| 6 | **give** | may | I | a wider publication | Legends *= legend* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient publication=Theme |
| 7 | **test** |  |  | candid criticism |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: 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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