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title: Near the source of the Minnesota River is a place called "Thunder-Tr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the source of the Minnesota River is a place called "Thunder-Tracks" where the foot-prints of a "Thunder-bird" are seen on the rocks twenty-five miles apart. Who acts: place. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependen
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 116

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Near the source of the Minnesota River is a place called "Thunder-Tracks" where the foot-prints of a "Thunder-bird" are seen on the rocks twenty-five miles apart.

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**Who acts:** place · **What happens:** be, call, see, print · **To what, where:** place, source, Thunder Tracks, foot prints, rocks, Thunder bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (place), 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:pg8122:20:116
# text = Near the source of the Minnesota River is a place called "Thunder-Tracks" where the foot-prints of a "Thunder-bird" are seen on the rocks twenty-five miles apart.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a place |  | the source of the Minnesota River |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a place *not said here* | Thunder Tracks |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | present · passive |  | the foot prints of a Thunder bird |  | the rocks and five miles |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **print** |  |  | a Thunder bird |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication 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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