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title: A score of swift-runners are there from the several bands of the nat… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: A score of swift-runners are there from the several bands of the nation; And now for the race they prepare, and among them fleet-footed Tamdóka. Who acts: score, runners. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 20

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A score of swift-runners are there from the several bands of the nation; And now for the race they prepare, and among them fleet-footed Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** score, runners · **What happens:** be, prepare, score · **To what, where:** several bands, footed Tamdóka, swift runners

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 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 (score, runners), 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:pg8122:11:20
# text = A score of swift-runners are there from the several bands of the nation; And now for the race they prepare, and among them fleet-footed Tamdóka.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
28	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a score of swift runners |  |  | the several bands of the nation |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | present | runners *= runner* | footed Tamdóka among arrows |  |  | now | for the race | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for race=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **score** |  |  | swift runners |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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