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title: Lake Minnetonka they called Me-me-a-tán-ka--_Broad Water_.] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Lake Minnetonka they called Me-me-a-tán-ka--_Broad Water_.] Who acts: Lake. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 147

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Lake Minnetonka they called Me-me-a-tán-ka--\_Broad Water\_.\]

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**Who acts:** Lake · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Me · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake), 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:pg8122:21:147
# text = Lake Minnetonka they called Me-me-a-tán-ka--_Broad Water_.]
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Minnetonka	Minnetonka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tán	tán	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Broad	Broad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Lake |  | Me  me |  |  | Dakotas *= dakota* *nsubj*; Broad Water *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent me=Recipient |

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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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