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title: White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago. Who acts: White Fisher, name. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 6

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White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago.

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**Who acts:** White Fisher, name · **What happens:** be, note, live · **To what, where:** name, south shore

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Fisher, name), 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:pg8122:23:6
# text = White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago.
1	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | White Fisher | the name |  |  |  | of a noted Chippewa Chief | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | the name |  |  | the south shore of Lake |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |

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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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