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title: When first visited by white men, and for many years afterwards, the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When first visited by white men, and for many years afterwards, the Falls of St. Anthony (by them called the Ha-Ha) was the center of their country. Who acts: Falls. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Super
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 12

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When first visited by white men, and for many years afterwards, the Falls of St. Anthony (by them called the Ha-Ha) was the center of their country.

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**Who acts:** Falls · **What happens:** visit, call, be · **To what, where:** center · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falls), 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:pg8122:2:13
# text = When first visited by white men, and for many years afterwards, the Falls of St. Anthony (by them called the Ha-Ha) was the center of their country.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Ha	Ha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Ha	Ha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | white men *obl:agent*; first *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Falls for many years of Anthony  St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Falls; the Ha Ha *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the Falls for many years of Anthony  St. | the center |  |  |  | of Falls's country | 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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