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title: [a] The route of Duluth above described--from the mouth of the Wild… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] The route of Duluth above described--from the mouth of the Wild Rice Mud River to Lake Superior--was for centuries and still is, the Indians' canoe route. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 36

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\[a\] The route of Duluth above described--from the mouth of the Wild Rice Mud River to Lake Superior--was for centuries and still is, the Indians' canoe route.

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**What happens:** describe, be · **To what, where:** route, mouth

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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: 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:pg8122:13:36
# text = [a] The route of Duluth above described--from the mouth of the Wild Rice Mud River to Lake Superior--was for centuries and still is, the Indians' canoe route.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Duluth	Duluth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	17	flat	_	_
17	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
22	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | participle |  | a route of Duluth and centuries and the Indians's canoe route *not said here* |  | the mouth of the Rice Mud River to Lake |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for centuries | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | still *property* | 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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