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title: [d] they jeered, for they liked not the boast of the boaster; But to… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [d] they jeered, for they liked not the boast of the boaster; But to match him no warrior appeared, for his feet wore the wings of the west-wind. Who acts: d, hunters, warrior, feet. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its depend
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 37

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\[d\] they jeered, for they liked not the boast of the boaster; But to match him no warrior appeared, for his feet wore the wings of the west-wind.

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**Who acts:** d, hunters, warrior, feet, boaster · **What happens:** jeer, not like, match, appear, wear, boast · **To what, where:** boast, d, wings

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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 (d, hunters, warrior, 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:pg8122:11:37
# text = [d] they jeered, for they liked not the boast of the boaster; But to match him no warrior appeared, for his feet wore the wings of the west-wind.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	d	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boaster	boaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jeer** | past | d |  |  |  |  | hunters *= hunter* *nsubj* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **like** | past | hunters *= hunter* | the boast of the boaster |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boast=Theme |
| 3 | **match** | to-infinitive | d *not said here* | d |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | no warrior |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wear** | past | d's feet | the wings of the west wind |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wing=Source |
| 6 | **boast** |  | the boaster |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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