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title: At the feet of the brave Frenchmen, dead, lay seven swarthy Sons of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: At the feet of the brave Frenchmen, dead, lay seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee; And there, in the midst of the slain, they found, as it gleamed in the fire light, The horn-handled knife from the Seine, where it fell from the hand of Tamdóka. Who acts: Sons, voice. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwe
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 20

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At the feet of the brave Frenchmen, dead, lay seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee; And there, in the midst of the slain, they found, as it gleamed in the fire light, The horn-handled knife from the Seine, where it fell from the hand of Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** Sons, voice · **What happens:** lay, find, gleam, handle, fall · **To what, where:** seven swarthy Sons, feet, fire light, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sons, voice), 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:pg8122:13:20
# text = At the feet of the brave Frenchmen, dead, lay seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee; And there, in the midst of the slain, they found, as it gleamed in the fire light, The horn-handled knife from the Seine, where it fell from the hand of Tamdóka.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Seine	seine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  | seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee |  | the feet of the brave Frenchmen; there |  | the midst of the slain *parataxis* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past | Sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **gleam** | past | voice |  |  | the fire light and the handled knife |  | from the Seine | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 4 | **handle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | horn *compound* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | voice |  |  | the hand of Tamdóka |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location |

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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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