Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 10
[Footnote 4: Mendota--(meeting of the waters) at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.
To what, where: Footnote
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mendota | punct |
| 5 | Mendota | Mendota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 meeting | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 meeting | punct |
| 8 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mendota | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meeting | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 waters | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 confluence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 confluence | det |
| 15 | confluence | confluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meeting | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rivers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rivers | det |
| 18 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rivers | compound |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Minnesota | cc |
| 20 | Minnesota | Minnesota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mississippi | conj |
| 21 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 confluence | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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