--- title: [Footnote 83: Gâh-ma-na-tek-wâhk--_the river of many falls_--is the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: [Footnote 83: Gâh-ma-na-tek-wâhk--_the river of many falls_--is the Ojibway name of the river commonly called Kaministiguia, near the mouth of which is situate Fort William, on the site of DuLuth's old fort. Who acts: Gâh, Footnote. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gâh, Footnote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:22:21 # text = [Footnote 83: Gâh-ma-na-tek-wâhk--_the river of many falls_--is the Ojibway name of the river commonly called Kaministiguia, near the mouth of which is situate Fort William, on the site of DuLuth's old fort. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Footnote footnote NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 3 83 83 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 5 Gâh Gâh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 na na NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 tek tek NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 wâhk wâhk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Ojibway Ojibway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 commonly commonly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 32 Kaministiguia Kaministiguia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 near near ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 situate situate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 appos _ _ 41 Fort Fort PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 DuLuth DuLuth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 fort fort NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wâhk** | | Gâh | | | | | ma *nsubj*; the river of many falls *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Footnote and na tek wâhk | the Ojibway name | | | | of the river | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | the river *not said here* | | the mouth | | Kaministiguia *xcomp*; commonly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | of the mouth; Fort William *vocative*; the site of DuLuth's old fort *conj*; situate *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/22/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/22/22/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/22/)