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title: This is an old English word of Saxon origin, now changed to _stock_.] — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This is an old English word of Saxon origin, now changed to _stock_.] Who acts: This. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 40

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This is an old English word of Saxon origin, now changed to \_stock\_.\]

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, change · **To what, where:** old English word

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg8122:21:40
# text = This is an old English word of Saxon origin, now changed to _stock_.]
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a old English word |  |  |  | of Saxon origin | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  | now | to stock *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to stock=Result |

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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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