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title: [Read at the celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Read at the celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at the Academy of Music, Minneapolis, July 4, 1879.] Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 5

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\[Read at the celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at the Academy of Music, Minneapolis, July 4, 1879.\]

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** read, celebrate · **To what, where:** celebration, Old Settlers

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg8122:16:5
# text = [Read at the celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at the Academy of Music, Minneapolis, July 4, 1879.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Music	Music	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Minneapolis	Minneapolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	1879	1879	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County |  | the Academy of Music and Minneapolis *parataxis* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at celebration=Value |
| 2 | **celebrate** |  |  | the Old Settlers of Hennepin County |  |  |  |  | nom celebration «event 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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