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title: By beginning each line with a _short_ syllable instead of a long one. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: By beginning each line with a _short_ syllable instead of a long one. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 76

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By beginning each line with a \_short\_ syllable instead of a long one.

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**What happens:** begin · **To what, where:** 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: 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:pg8122:2:78
# text = By beginning each line with a _short_ syllable instead of a long one.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund |  | each line |  |  |  | with a \_; instead a long one; short syllable *obj* | tree rules |

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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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