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title: [a] Lake Superior,--The _Gitchee Gumee_ of the Chippewas. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [a] Lake Superior,--The _Gitchee Gumee_ of the Chippewas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 106

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\[a\] Lake Superior,--The \_Gitchee Gumee\_ of the Chippewas.

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**To what, where:** Lake Superior

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. 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:pg8122:14:106
# text = [a] Lake Superior,--The _Gitchee Gumee_ of the Chippewas.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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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