--- title: At his heels flies Hu-pá-hu, [a] the fleet --the pride of the band o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: At his heels flies Hu-pá-hu, [a] the fleet --the pride of the band of Kaóza, A warrior with eagle-winged feet, but his prize is the bow and the quiver. Who acts: prize. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prize), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:11:26 # text = At his heels flies Hu-pá-hu, [a] the fleet --the pride of the band of Kaóza, A warrior with eagle-winged feet, but his prize is the bow and the quiver. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 4 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Hu Hu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 pá pá NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 list _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 hu Hu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fleet fleet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Kaóza Kaóza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 warrior warrior NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 quiver quiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | | Hu pá and hu | | Tamdóka's heels | | a fleet and the pride of the band of Kaóza and a warrior with winged feet *parataxis* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hu=Theme at heel=Location | | 2 | **wing** | participle | | | | | | eagle *compound* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Tamdóka's prize | the bow and the quiver | | | | the quiver *conj* | tree rules | | 4 | **pride** | | | the band of Kaóza | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/27/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/)