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title: [b] Tonka Mede--Great Lake, i.e. Lake Superior. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] Tonka Mede--Great Lake, i.e. Lake Superior. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 27

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\[b\] Tonka Mede--Great Lake, i.e. Lake Superior.

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**To what, where:** Tonka

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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: 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:pg8122:12:27
# text = [b] Tonka Mede--Great Lake, i.e. Lake Superior.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Tonka	Tonka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Mede	Mede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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