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title: By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another. 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 79

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By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another.

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**What happens:** use, unaccompany · **To what, where:** one short syllable

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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:pg8122:2:81
# text = By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	unaccompanied	unaccompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | one short syllable |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient |
| 2 | **unaccompany** | participle |  | one short syllable *not said here* |  |  |  | by another | 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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