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title: The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and short syllables; but would be perplexing and unpleasant in the diversified movement of Hexameter verse." Who acts: pronunciation. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 44

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The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and short syllables; but would be perplexing and unpleasant in the diversified movement of Hexameter verse."

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**Who acts:** pronunciation · **What happens:** be, perplex, diversify, move · **To what, where:** simple movement, diversified movement, alternate long syllables, Hexameter verse

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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 (pronunciation), 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:pg8122:2:45
# text = The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and short syllables; but would be perplexing and unpleasant in the diversified movement of Hexameter verse."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	alternate	alternate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	perplexing	perplex	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	diversified	diversify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the pronunciation |  |  | a simple movement of alternate long syllables |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perplex** | would · progressive |  |  |  | the diversified movement of Hexameter verse |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **diversify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **move** |  |  | alternate long syllables |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **move** |  |  | Hexameter verse |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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