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title: English Hexameter would be destitute of melody, unless by artful pro… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: English Hexameter would be destitute of melody, unless by artful pronunciation; because of necessity the bulk of its sounds must be arbitrary. Who acts: English, bulk. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Sup
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 43

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English Hexameter would be destitute of melody, unless by artful pronunciation; because of necessity the bulk of its sounds must be arbitrary.

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**Who acts:** English, bulk · **What happens:** be

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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: who acts (English, bulk), 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:pg8122:2:44
# text = English Hexameter would be destitute of melody, unless by artful pronunciation; because of necessity the bulk of its sounds must be arbitrary.
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Hexameter	Hexameter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	destitute	destitute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	artful	artful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
14	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	arbitrary	arbitrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | English |  |  |  |  | of melody; artful pronunciation *parataxis*; destitute *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | must | the bulk of bulk's sounds |  |  |  |  | because necessity; arbitrary *property* | tree rules |

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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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