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title: Now they bend to their oars in the race --the ten tawny braves of Ta… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they bend to their oars in the race --the ten tawny braves of Tamdóka; And hard on their heels in the chase ply the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen. Who acts: boatmen. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 87

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Now they bend to their oars in the race --the ten tawny braves of Tamdóka; And hard on their heels in the chase ply the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen.

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**Who acts:** boatmen · **What happens:** bend, ply · **To what, where:** race, six stalwart oars

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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 (boatmen), 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:pg8122:12:88
# text = Now they bend to their oars in the race --the ten tawny braves of Tamdóka; And hard on their heels in the chase ply the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen.
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	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	ply	ply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bend** | present | boatmen *= boatman* |  |  | the race | now | to boatmen's oars | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in race=Location |
| 2 | **ply** | infinitive |  | the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient |

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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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