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title: Rhyme adds greatly to the labor of composition; it rarely assists, b… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhyme adds greatly to the labor of composition; it rarely assists, but often hinders, the expression of the sense which the author would convey. Who acts: Rhyme, author. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake S
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 87

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Rhyme adds greatly to the labor of composition; it rarely assists, but often hinders, the expression of the sense which the author would convey.

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**Who acts:** Rhyme, author · **What happens:** add, assist, hinder, convey · **To what, where:** expression, sense

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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 (Rhyme, author), 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:pg8122:2:89
# text = Rhyme adds greatly to the labor of composition; it rarely assists, but often hinders, the expression of the sense which the author would convey.
1	Rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	assists	assist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hinders	hinder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Rhyme |  |  |  |  | to the labor of composition; greatly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to labor=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **assist** | present | rhyme |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hinder** | present | rhyme *not said here* | the expression of the sense |  |  |  | often *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer expression=Eventuality |
| 4 | **convey** | would | the author | the sense |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |

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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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