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title: These few rules fulfill all the conditions of an Hexameter line with… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: These few rules fulfill all the conditions of an Hexameter line with relation to order of arrangement."--_Lord Kames, "Elements of Criticism." Who acts: few rules. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superio
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 69

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These few rules fulfill all the conditions of an Hexameter line with relation to order of arrangement."--\_Lord Kames, "Elements of Criticism."

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**Who acts:** few rules · **What happens:** fulfill, order, condition · **To what, where:** conditions, Hexameter line

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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 (few rules), 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:pg8122:2:71
# text = These few rules fulfill all the conditions of an Hexameter line with relation to order of arrangement."--_Lord Kames, "Elements of Criticism."
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fulfill	fulfill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Kames	Kames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Criticism	Criticism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfill** | present | this few rules | all conditions of a Hexameter line with relation |  |  |  | Lord Kames and Elements of Criticism *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | to-infinitive | this few rules *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of arrangement | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | a Hexameter line with relation |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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