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title: Now DuLuth's brawny boatmen pursue the swift gliding bark of Tamdóka… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now DuLuth's brawny boatmen pursue the swift gliding bark of Tamdóka; And hardly the red braves out-do the stout, steady oars of the white men. Who acts: brawny boatmen, swift, red braves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 86

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Now DuLuth's brawny boatmen pursue the swift gliding bark of Tamdóka; And hardly the red braves out-do the stout, steady oars of the white men.

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**Who acts:** brawny boatmen, swift, red braves · **What happens:** pursue, glide, do · **To what, where:** swift, bark, stout

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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 (brawny boatmen, swift, red braves), 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:pg8122:12:87
# text = Now DuLuth's brawny boatmen pursue the swift gliding bark of Tamdóka; And hardly the red braves out-do the stout, steady oars of the white men.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stout	stout	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | present | DuLuth's brawny boatmen | the swift |  |  | now | the red braves and steady oars of the white men *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swift=Theme |
| 2 | **glide** | gerund | the swift *not said here* | bark of Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | the red braves and steady oars of the white men *not said here* | the stout |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stout=Eventuality |

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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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