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title: That was my first real effort and full of crudities but if the Legen… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: That was my first real effort and full of crudities but if the Legends are received by our best critics as well as _Pauline_ was received I shall be well pleased with my efforts. Who acts: That, best critics, I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Oji
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 93

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That was my first real effort and full of crudities but if the Legends are received by our best critics as well as \_Pauline\_ was received I shall be well pleased with my efforts.

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**Who acts:** That, best critics, I · **What happens:** be, receive · **To what, where:** first real effort, Legends, Pauline

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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 (That, best critics, 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:pg8122:2:95
# text = That was my first real effort and full of crudities but if the Legends are received by our best critics as well as _Pauline_ was received I shall be well pleased with my efforts.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	crudities	crudity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Pauline	Pauline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | my first real effort |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of crudities | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | our best critics | the Legends |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past · passive |  | Pauline |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with my efforts; pleased, well *property* | 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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