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title: The Ojibways call it Waub-ó-nong--the white land or land of light, a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibways call it Waub-ó-nong--the white land or land of light, and they have many myths, legends and traditions relating thereto. Who acts: Ojibways, traditions. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 85

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The Ojibways call it Waub-ó-nong--the white land or land of light, and they have many myths, legends and traditions relating thereto.

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**Who acts:** Ojibways, traditions · **What happens:** call, have, relate · **To what, where:** sun., many myths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ojibways, traditions), 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:pg8122:20:85
# text = The Ojibways call it Waub-ó-nong--the white land or land of light, and they have many myths, legends and traditions relating thereto.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ó	ó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	nong	nong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	relating	relate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Ojibways | sun. |  |  |  | Waub ó nong *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Ojibways *= ojibway* | many myths and legends and traditions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient |
| 3 | **relate** | gerund | traditions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |

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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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