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title: "Deux cavaliers bien monteés; L'un a cheval, et l'autre a pied. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: "Deux cavaliers bien monteés; L'un a cheval, et l'autre a pied. Who acts: Deux cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 69

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"Deux cavaliers bien monteés; L'un a cheval, et l'autre a pied.

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**Who acts:** Deux cavaliers · **What happens:** bien, pi · **To what, where:** monteés, l'autre

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deux cavaliers), 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:pg8122:10:69
# text = "Deux cavaliers bien monteés; L'un a cheval, et l'autre a pied.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bien	bien	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	monteés	monteé	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	L'un	L'un	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cheval	cheval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	l'autre	l'autre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pied	pi	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bien** *in a quote* | present | Deux cavaliers | monteés |  |  |  | L'un *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pi** *in a quote* | participle |  | l'autre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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