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title: They strain like a stag and a hound, when the swift river gleams thr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They strain like a stag and a hound, when the swift river gleams through the thicket, And the horns of the rulers resound, winding shrill through the depths of the forest. Who acts: feet, swift river, horns. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 58

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They strain like a stag and a hound, when the swift river gleams through the thicket, And the horns of the rulers resound, winding shrill through the depths of the forest.

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**Who acts:** feet, swift river, horns · **What happens:** strain, gleam, resound, wind · **To what, where:** thicket, depths

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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, swift river, horns), 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:pg8122:11:58
# text = They strain like a stag and a hound, when the swift river gleams through the thicket, And the horns of the rulers resound, winding shrill through the depths of the forest.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	strain	strain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gleams	gleam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	resound	resound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	shrill	shrill	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strain** | present | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | like a stag and a hound | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gleam** | present | the swift river |  |  | the thicket |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Location |
| 3 | **resound** | infinitive | the horns of the rulers |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wind** | gerund | the horns of the rulers *not said here* |  |  | the depths of the forest |  | shrill *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through depth=Trajectory |

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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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