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title: Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning each line with a _long_ syllable, he is compelled to emphasize words contrary to the sense. Who acts: Greek rule. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Ro
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 53

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Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning each line with a \_long\_ syllable, he is compelled to emphasize words contrary to the sense.

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**Who acts:** Greek rule · **What happens:** comply, begin, compel, emphasize · **To what, where:** line, discon, words

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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 (Greek rule), 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:pg8122:2:54
# text = Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning each line with a _long_ syllable, he is compelled to emphasize words contrary to the sense.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	comply	comply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
22	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	emphasize	emphasize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comply** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again | with the Greek rule | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | gerund | the Greek rule *not said here* | each line |  |  |  | with a long syllable | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent line=Eventuality with syllable=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **compel** | present · passive |  | discon |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **emphasize** | to-infinitive |  | words |  |  |  | contrary *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

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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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