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title: Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band of Ottawas. Who acts: Net nó kwa. 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 52

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Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band of Ottawas.

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**Who acts:** Net nó kwa · **What happens:** adopt, be · **To what, where:** Tanner, Oge mâ kwa

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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 (Net nó kwa), 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:pg8122:23:52
# text = Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band of Ottawas.
1	Net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nó	nó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	kwa	kwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	Oge	Oge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	mâ	mâ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kwa	kwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ottawas	ottawa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | past | Net nó kwa | Tanner |  |  |  | as Tanner's son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tanner=Theme as son=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Net nó kwa | Oge mâ kwa |  |  |  | of a band of Ottawas | 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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