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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 59

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"Greek and Latin Hexameter lines, as to time, are all of the same length, being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables, or twenty-four short ones.

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**What happens:** be, take, pronounce · **To what, where:** same length, twelve long syllables, all

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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: 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:pg8122:2:60
# text = "Greek and Latin Hexameter lines, as to time, are all of the same length, being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables, or twenty-four short ones.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pronouncing	pronounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | equivalent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | participle |  | the same length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pronounce** *in a quote* | gerund |  | twelve long syllables or twenty short ones |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=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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