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title: Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of magic and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of magic and divination, and their rites are substantially the same, and point unmistakably to a common origin. Who acts: pretended intercourse. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 157

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Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of magic and divination, and their rites are substantially the same, and point unmistakably to a common origin.

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**Who acts:** pretended intercourse · **What happens:** pretend, be, point · **To what, where:** common origin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretended intercourse), 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:pg8122:21:157
# text = Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of magic and divination, and their rites are substantially the same, and point unmistakably to a common origin.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	divination	divination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	substantially	substantially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
24	unmistakably	unmistakably	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Footnote's pretended intercourse with spirits and Footnote's powers of magic and divination |  |  |  |  | Footnote's rites *nsubj*; same, substantially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** | infinitive |  |  | a common origin |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to origin=Recipient |

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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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