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title: Beautiful as is the _Evangeline_ of Longfellow, his Hexameter lines… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful as is the _Evangeline_ of Longfellow, his Hexameter lines are sometimes hard to scan, and often grate harshly on the ear. Who acts: Hexameter lines. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., w
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 45

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Beautiful as is the \_Evangeline\_ of Longfellow, his Hexameter lines are sometimes hard to scan, and often grate harshly on the ear.

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**Who acts:** Hexameter lines · **What happens:** be, scan, grate

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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 (Hexameter lines), 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:pg8122:2:46
# text = Beautiful as is the _Evangeline_ of Longfellow, his Hexameter lines are sometimes hard to scan, and often grate harshly on the ear.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Evangeline	Evangeline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	scan	scan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	grate	grate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | beautiful the Evangeline \_; of Longfellow | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Longfellow's Hexameter lines |  |  |  |  | hard, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **scan** | to-infinitive | Longfellow's Hexameter lines *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grate** | present | Longfellow's Hexameter lines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the ear; harshly, often *property* | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus on ear=Experiencer |

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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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