--- title: Tamdóka is swift, but forsooth, the tongue of his mother is swifter,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Tamdóka is swift, but forsooth, the tongue of his mother is swifter," She said, and her face was aflame with the red of the rose and the lily, And loud was the roar of acclaim; but dark was the face of Tamdóka. Who acts: Tamdóka, tongue, wife, face. 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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 (Tamdóka, tongue, wife, face), 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:pg8122:11:53 # text = Tamdóka is swift, but forsooth, the tongue of his mother is swifter," She said, and her face was aflame with the red of the rose and the lily, And loud was the roar of acclaim; but dark was the face of Tamdóka. 1 Tamdóka Tamdóka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 forsooth forsooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 swifter swifter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 aflame aflame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 And and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 37 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 acclaim acclaim NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Tamdóka Tamdóka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Tamdóka | | | | | swift *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Tamdóka *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the tongue of Tamdóka's mother | swifter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | wife's face | | | | | with the red; of the rose and the lily; aflame *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | | wife's face *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | past | the roar of acclaim | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Tamdóka *not said here* | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **roar** *in a quote* | | acclaim | | | | | | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/54/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/)