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title: In _Winona_ I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In _Winona_ I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 36

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In \_Winona\_ I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse.

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**What happens:** try · **To what, where:** hand, \_

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:2:37
# text = In _Winona_ I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | my hand |  | \_ |  | on Hexameter verse | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |

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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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