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title: From this combination proceeds a Wakân influence so powerful that no… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From this combination proceeds a Wakân influence so powerful that no human being unassisted can resist it." Who acts: Wakân influence. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 17

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From this combination proceeds a Wakân influence so powerful that no human being unassisted can resist it."

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**Who acts:** Wakân influence · **What happens:** proceed, unassist, resist · **To what, where:** combination, no, sack

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wakân influence), 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:pg8122:22:17
# text = From this combination proceeds a Wakân influence so powerful that no human being unassisted can resist it."
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	proceeds	proceed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Wakân	Wakân	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	unassisted	unassist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | present |  |  |  | this combination |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **unassist** | gerund · passive |  | no |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resist** | can | a Wakân influence | sack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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