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title: [Footnote 57: The Dakotas called the Ojibways the "Snakes of the For… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 57: The Dakotas called the Ojibways the "Snakes of the Forest," on account of their lying in ambush for their enemies.] Who acts: Dakotas, Ojibways. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 18

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\[Footnote 57: The Dakotas called the Ojibways the "Snakes of the Forest," on account of their lying in ambush for their enemies.\]

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**Who acts:** Dakotas, Ojibways · **What happens:** call, account, lie · **To what, where:** Footnote, account, lying, ambush · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas, Ojibways), 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:pg8122:21:18
# text = [Footnote 57: The Dakotas called the Ojibways the "Snakes of the Forest," on account of their lying in ambush for their enemies.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ojibways	Ojibway	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lying	lying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the Dakotas | Footnote |  | account of Ojibways's lying in ambush for Ojibways's enemies |  | the Ojibways *obj*; the Snakes of the Forest *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ojibway=Theme snake=Result |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | Ojibways's lying in ambush for Ojibways's enemies |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **lie** |  | Ojibways *= ojibway* |  |  | ambush for Ojibways's enemies |  |  | nom lying «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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