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title: The resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that of the older Greeks… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that of the older Greeks and Romans is striking. Who acts: resemblance. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 88

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The resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that of the older Greeks and Romans is striking.

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**Who acts:** resemblance · **What happens:** strike

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resemblance), 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:pg8122:9:88
# text = The resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that of the older Greeks and Romans is striking.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | present · progressive | the resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that of the older Greeks and Romans |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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