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title: I have walked over the old portage from the foot of the Dalles to th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I have walked over the old portage from the foot of the Dalles to the St. Louis above--trod by the feet of half-breeds and _voyageurs_ for more than two centuries, and by the Indians for, perhaps, a thousand years. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The F
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 37

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I have walked over the old portage from the foot of the Dalles to the St. Louis above--trod by the feet of half-breeds and \_voyageurs\_ for more than two centuries, and by the Indians for, perhaps, a thousand years.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** walk, tread · **To what, where:** old portage

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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 (I), 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:pg8122:13:37
# text = I have walked over the old portage from the foot of the Dalles to the St. Louis above--trod by the feet of half-breeds and _voyageurs_ for more than two centuries, and by the Indians for, perhaps, a thousand years.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Dalles	Dalles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	above	above	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	trod	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	35	advmod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the old portage from the foot of the Dalles | century; year | to the Louis  St. *result*; by the Indians; above *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to louis=Result |
| 2 | **tread** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the feet of half breeds and \_ voyageurs *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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