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title: As light as the foot-steps of dawn are the feet of the stealthy Tamd… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: As light as the foot-steps of dawn are the feet of the stealthy Tamdóka, And he fears not the Máza Wakán; [a] he is sly as the fox of the forest. Who acts: Tamdóka. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 51

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As light as the foot-steps of dawn are the feet of the stealthy Tamdóka, And he fears not the Máza Wakán; \[a\] he is sly as the fox of the forest.

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**Who acts:** Tamdóka · **What happens:** be, not fear, step · **To what, where:** feet, Máza Wakán, dawn

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamdóka), 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:pg8122:12:52
# text = As light as the foot-steps of dawn are the feet of the stealthy Tamdóka, And he fears not the Máza Wakán; [a] he is sly as the fox of the forest.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Máza	Máza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Wakán	Wakán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the feet |  |  |  | as light as the foot steps of dawn; of the stealthy Tamdóka | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | present | Tamdóka | the Máza Wakán |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | as the fox of the forest; sly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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