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title: [Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.] Who acts: Algónkin, tribes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 21

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\[Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.\]

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**Who acts:** Algónkin, tribes · **What happens:** be, apply, speak · **To what, where:** general name, Ojibway language, Footnote · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Algónkin, tribes), 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:pg8122:23:21
# text = [Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1011	1011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Algónkin	Algónkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Algónkin | the general name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  | the general name *not said here* |  |  |  | to all tribes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | all tribes | the Ojibway language or dialects of name |  |  |  |  | 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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