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title: [c] The Ojibways call the St. Louis River _Gitchee-Gumee See-bee--Gr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [c] The Ojibways call the St. Louis River _Gitchee-Gumee See-bee--Great-lake River_, i.e. the river of the Great Lake (Lake Superior). Who acts: Ojibways, Gitchee Gumee. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 32

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\[c\] The Ojibways call the St. Louis River \_Gitchee-Gumee See-bee--Great-lake River\_, i.e. the river of the Great Lake (Lake Superior).

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**Who acts:** Ojibways, Gitchee Gumee · **What happens:** call, bee · **To what, where:** c · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ojibways, Gitchee Gumee), 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:pg8122:13:32
# text = [c] The Ojibways call the St. Louis River _Gitchee-Gumee See-bee--Great-lake River_, i.e. the river of the Great Lake (Lake Superior).
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	See	See	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
34	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Ojibways | c |  |  |  | the Louis River  St. *obj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent river=Recipient |
| 2 | **bee** |  | Gitchee Gumee |  |  |  |  | Great lake *conj* | 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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