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title: This lake was discovered by DuLuth, and by him named Lac Buade, in h… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This lake was discovered by DuLuth, and by him named Lac Buade, in honor of Governor Frontenac of Canada, whose familyname was Buade. Who acts: DuLuth, familyname. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 15

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This lake was discovered by DuLuth, and by him named Lac Buade, in honor of Governor Frontenac of Canada, whose familyname was Buade.

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**Who acts:** DuLuth, familyname · **What happens:** discover, name, be, honor · **To what, where:** lake, DuLuth, honor, Buade, Frontenac

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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 (DuLuth, familyname), 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:pg8122:21:15
# text = This lake was discovered by DuLuth, and by him named Lac Buade, in honor of Governor Frontenac of Canada, whose familyname was Buade.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	Lac	Lac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Buade	Buade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Frontenac	Frontenac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	familyname	familyname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	Buade	Buade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive | DuLuth | this lake |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive |  | DuLuth |  | honor of Frontenac  Governor of Canada and Buade |  | Lac *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Buade's familyname | Buade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **honor** |  |  | Frontenac  Governor of Canada and Buade |  |  |  |  | nom honor «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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