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title: The island called by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The island called by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like shape, lifts its huge form in the distance. Who acts: island. 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 ev
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 27

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The island called by the Ojibways the \_Mak-i-nak\_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like shape, lifts its huge form in the distance.

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**Who acts:** island · **What happens:** call, lift, form · **To what, where:** island, huge form · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island), 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:pg8122:22:27
# text = The island called by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like shape, lifts its huge form in the distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ojibways	Ojibway	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mak	mak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nak	nak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
26	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the island *not said here* |  |  |  | the Ojibways  the Mak i nak *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lift** | present | the island | island's huge form |  |  |  | in the distance | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme in distance=Destination |
| 3 | **form** |  | island |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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