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title: [Footnote 40: The Bloody River--the Red River was so-called on accou… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 40: The Bloody River--the Red River was so-called on account of the numerous Indian battles that have been fought on its banks. 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 152

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\[Footnote 40: The Bloody River--the Red River was so-called on account of the numerous Indian battles that have been fought on its banks.

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**What happens:** call, fight, account · **To what, where:** Footnote, account, numerous Indian battles, banks · **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: 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:pg8122:20:152
# text = [Footnote 40: The Bloody River--the Red River was so-called on account of the numerous Indian battles that have been fought on its banks.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Bloody	Bloody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | Footnote |  | account of the numerous Indian battles |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **fight** | present · perfect · passive |  | the numerous Indian battles |  | battle's banks |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the numerous Indian battles |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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