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title: [Footnote 4: Mendota--(meeting of the waters) at the confluence of t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 4: Mendota--(meeting of the waters) at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 10

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\[Footnote 4: Mendota--(meeting of the waters) at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.

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**To what, where:** Footnote

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. 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:pg8122:20:10
# text = [Footnote 4: Mendota--(meeting of the waters) at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mendota	Mendota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	confluence	confluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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