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title: Take for example some of the opening lines of _Evangeline_: — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Take for example some of the opening lines of _Evangeline_: Who acts: you. 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 47

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Take for example some of the opening lines of \_Evangeline\_:

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** some

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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 (you), 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:pg8122:2:48
# text = Take for example some of the opening lines of _Evangeline_:
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Evangeline	Evangeline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | some of the opening lines of Evangeline |  |  |  | for example | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for example=Beneficiary |

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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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