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title: [a] Mendota, properly _Mdó-tè_--meaning the outlet of lake or river… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] Mendota, properly _Mdó-tè_--meaning the outlet of lake or river into another, commonly applied to the region about Fort Snelling. Who acts: Mendota, Fort. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 26

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\[a\] Mendota, properly \_Mdó-tè\_--meaning the outlet of lake or river into another, commonly applied to the region about Fort Snelling.

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**Who acts:** Mendota, Fort · **What happens:** mean, apply, snell · **To what, where:** outlet, another, Mendota

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 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 (Mendota, Fort), 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:pg8122:12:26
# text = [a] Mendota, properly _Mdó-tè_--meaning the outlet of lake or river into another, commonly applied to the region about Fort Snelling.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Mendota	Mendota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Mdó	Mdó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tè	tè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	outlet	outlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Snelling	snell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | a Mendota *not said here* | the outlet of lake or river |  | another |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outlet=Topic |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the region about Fort; commonly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **snell** | gerund | Fort *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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