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title: With the oil of the buck and the bear their sinewy limbs are anointe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: With the oil of the buck and the bear their sinewy limbs are anointed, For fleet are the feet of the deer and strong are the limbs of the bruin, And long is the course and severe for the swiftest and strongest of runners. Who acts: buck, feet. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lenn
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 21

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With the oil of the buck and the bear their sinewy limbs are anointed, For fleet are the feet of the deer and strong are the limbs of the bruin, And long is the course and severe for the swiftest and strongest of runners.

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**Who acts:** buck, feet · **What happens:** anoint, be · **To what, where:** sinewy limbs, feet, limbs, long course

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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 (buck, feet), 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:pg8122:11:21
# text = With the oil of the buck and the bear their sinewy limbs are anointed, For fleet are the feet of the deer and strong are the limbs of the bruin, And long is the course and severe for the swiftest and strongest of runners.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sinewy	sinewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bruin	bruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anoint** | present · passive | the buck and the bear *not said here* | buck's sinewy limbs |  |  |  | for fleet | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the feet |  |  |  | with the oil of the buck and the bear; of the deer | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the feet | the limbs |  |  |  | of the bruin | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the long course |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | for the swiftest | 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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