--- title: With what success, I leave to those who are better able to judge tha… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: With what success, I leave to those who are better able to judge than I. If I have failed, I have but added another failure to the numerous vain attempts to naturalize Hexameter verse in the English language. Who acts: I. 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If I have failed, I have but added another failure to the numerous vain attempts to naturalize Hexameter verse in the English language. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** leave, be, judge, fail, have, add · **To what, where:** those, failure, Hexameter verse, English language 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: who acts (I), 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:pg8122:2:38 # text = With what success, I leave to those who are better able to judge than I. If I have failed, I have but added another failure to the numerous vain attempts to naturalize Hexameter verse in the English language. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 12 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 I. I. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 If if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 26 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 failure failure NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 numerous numerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 attempts attempt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 naturalize naturalize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 35 Hexameter hexameter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | I | | | those | | with success | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to that=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | who *nsubj*; able, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **judge** | to-infinitive | | | | | | than I. | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | I *not said here* | another failure | | | | to the numerous vain attempts | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent failure=Patient to attempt=Co-Patient | | 7 | **naturalize** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Hexameter verse | | the English language | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent verse=Patient | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/38/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/)