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title: The chiefs and the leading warriors usually belong to the secret ord… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefs and the leading warriors usually belong to the secret order of "Medicine-men," or "Sons of Unktéhee"--the Spirit of the Waters.] Who acts: chiefs. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 73

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The chiefs and the leading warriors usually belong to the secret order of "Medicine-men," or "Sons of Unktéhee"--the Spirit of the Waters.\]

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** lead, belong, order · **To what, where:** Medicine men

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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:pg8122:20:73
# text = The chiefs and the leading warriors usually belong to the secret order of "Medicine-men," or "Sons of Unktéhee"--the Spirit of the Waters.]
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Waters	Water	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the chiefs and the leading warriors |  |  |  |  | to the secret order of Medicine men or Sons of Unktéhee; usually *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | Medicine men or Sons of Unktéhee |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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