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title: Now they turn on the post at the lake, --now they run full abreast o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they turn on the post at the lake, --now they run full abreast on the home-stretch; Side by side they contend for the stake, for a long mile or more on the prairie. Who acts: feet. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its depe
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 57

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Now they turn on the post at the lake, --now they run full abreast on the home-stretch; Side by side they contend for the stake, for a long mile or more on the prairie.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** turn, run, side, contend · **To what, where:** post, home stretch, side

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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 (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:pg8122:11:57
# text = Now they turn on the post at the lake, --now they run full abreast on the home-stretch; Side by side they contend for the stake, for a long mile or more on the prairie.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	abreast	abreast	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Side	side	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	contend	contend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | feet *= foot* |  |  | the post | now | at the lake; a long mile on the prairie *parataxis* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on post=Source at lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run** | present | feet *= foot* |  |  | the home stretch | now | abreast, full *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stretch=Trajectory |
| 3 | **side** | infinitive | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by side | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **contend** | present | feet *= foot* | side *not said here* |  |  |  | for the stake | 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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