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title: * * * In Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable sounds direct and asce… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: * * * In Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable sounds direct and ascertain the melody. 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 42

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\* \* \* In Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable sounds direct and ascertain the melody.

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**What happens:** sound, ascertain · **To what, where:** Latin, melody

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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:pg8122:2:43
# text = * * * In Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable sounds direct and ascertain the melody.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
2	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
3	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	invariable	invariable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present |  |  |  | Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable |  | direct *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in latin=Location |
| 2 | **ascertain** | present |  | the melody |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Topic |

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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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