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title: _ One who attempts to write English Hexameter, under the Greek and L… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: _ One who attempts to write English Hexameter, under the Greek and Latin rules, will speedily be made aware that the English language "super-abounds in short syllables." Who acts: English language. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 70

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\_ One who attempts to write English Hexameter, under the Greek and Latin rules, will speedily be made aware that the English language "super-abounds in short syllables."

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**Who acts:** English language · **What happens:** attempt, write, make, abound · **To what, where:** English, Greek rules, short syllables, One

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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 (English language), 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:pg8122:2:72
# text = _ One who attempts to write English Hexameter, under the Greek and Latin rules, will speedily be made aware that the English language "super-abounds in short syllables."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	attempts	attempt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Hexameter	Hexameter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	super	super	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | English |  | the Greek rules |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  | aware, speedily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 4 | **abound** *in a quote* | present | the English language *not said here* |  |  | short syllables |  | super *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in syllable=Location |

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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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