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title: The line must always commence with a _long_ syllable, and close with… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The line must always commence with a _long_ syllable, and close with two long preceded by two short. Who acts: line. 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
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 64

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The line must always commence with a \_long\_ syllable, and close with two long preceded by two short.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** commence, close, precede

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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 (line), 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:pg8122:2:66
# text = The line must always commence with a _long_ syllable, and close with two long preceded by two short.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	commence	commence	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	preceded	precede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | must | the line |  |  |  |  | with a long syllable; always *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with syllable=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **close** | present | the line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with two; long *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with two=Theme |
| 3 | **precede** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by two short | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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