--- title: She was pale, and her hurried voice swelled with alarm as she questi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: She was pale, and her hurried voice swelled with alarm as she questioned replying "Tamdóka thy guide? --I beheld thy death in his face at the races! Who acts: Ta, hurried voice, thy. 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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 (Ta, hurried voice, thy), 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:pg8122:12:31 # text = She was pale, and her hurried voice swelled with alarm as she questioned replying "Tamdóka thy guide? --I beheld thy death in his face at the races! 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swelled swell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 questioned question VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 replying reply VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Tamdóka Tamdóka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Ta | | | | | pale *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurry** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swell** | past | Ta's hurried voice | | | | | with alarm | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **question** *speech: other* | past | Ta | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **reply** *speech: ask* | gerund | Ta *not said here* | Tamdóka | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Topic | | 6 | **behold** *in a quote* | past | Ta | thy death | | Tamdóka's face | | at the races | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | | 7 | **die** *in a quote* | | thy | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/31/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)