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title: The reception of my _Pauline_ at home and abroad has been so flatter… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The reception of my _Pauline_ at home and abroad has been so flattering that I have been encouraged to attempt something better. Who acts: reception, I. 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 it
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 92

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The reception of my \_Pauline\_ at home and abroad has been so flattering that I have been encouraged to attempt something better.

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**Who acts:** reception, I · **What happens:** have, flatter, encourage, attempt, receive · **To what, where:** I, something, Pauline, home

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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 (reception, I), 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:pg8122:2:94
# text = The reception of my _Pauline_ at home and abroad has been so flattering that I have been encouraged to attempt something better.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Pauline	Pauline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the reception of my Pauline at home |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flatter** | participle · progressive | the reception of my Pauline at home *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **encourage** | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **attempt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 5 | **receive** |  |  | my Pauline |  | home |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: of=patient at=place |

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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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