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title: [Footnote 1015: The Ojibways, like the Dakotas, call the _Via Lactea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 1015: The Ojibways, like the Dakotas, call the _Via Lactea_ (Milky Way) the Pathway of the Spirits.] Who acts: Ojibways. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 33

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\[Footnote 1015: The Ojibways, like the Dakotas, call the \_Via Lactea\_ (Milky Way) the Pathway of the Spirits.\]

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**Who acts:** Ojibways · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** 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 (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:pg8122:23:33
# text = [Footnote 1015: The Ojibways, like the Dakotas, call the _Via Lactea_ (Milky Way) the Pathway of the Spirits.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	1015	1015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Via	Via	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Lactea	Lactea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Pathway	Pathway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the Ojibways and the Dakotas | Footnote |  |  |  | the \_ *obj*; Milky Way *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent \_=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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