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title: [b] _Gitchee seebee_--Big River--the Ojibway name for the Mississipp… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [b] _Gitchee seebee_--Big River--the Ojibway name for the Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee--as Michigan is a corruption of _Gitchee Gumee_--Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake Superior. Who acts: Big River, Michigan. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gor
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 31

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\[b\] \_Gitchee seebee\_--Big River--the Ojibway name for the Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee--as Michigan is a corruption of \_Gitchee Gumee\_--Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake Superior.

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**Who acts:** Big River, Michigan · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** corruption, Gitchee seebee, Lake

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big River, Michigan), 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:pg8122:13:31
# text = [b] _Gitchee seebee_--Big River--the Ojibway name for the Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee--as Michigan is a corruption of _Gitchee Gumee_--Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake Superior.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	b	b	NUM	LS	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	seebee	seebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Seebee	Seebee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Big River | a corruption |  |  |  | of Gitchee | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Michigan |  |  |  |  | as a corruption; of Gitchee | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Lake |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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