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title: The white years have broken my spear; from my bow they have taken th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The white years have broken my spear; from my bow they have taken the bow-string; But once on the trail of the deer, like a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset, By woodland and meadow and mere, ran the feet of Ta-té-psin untiring. Who acts: white years, psin. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 67

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The white years have broken my spear; from my bow they have taken the bow-string; But once on the trail of the deer, like a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset, By woodland and meadow and mere, ran the feet of Ta-té-psin untiring.

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**Who acts:** white years, psin · **What happens:** break, take, run · **To what, where:** spear, bow string, bow, feet

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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 (white years, psin), 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:pg8122:13:67
# text = The white years have broken my spear; from my bow they have taken the bow-string; But once on the trail of the deer, like a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset, By woodland and meadow and mere, ran the feet of Ta-té-psin untiring.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	till	till	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	By	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
49	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	untiring	untiring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · perfect | the white years | my spear |  |  |  | a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset *parataxis*; woodland and meadow and mere *parataxis*; once *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | psin | the bow string |  | my bow |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent string=Theme from bow=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **run** | past |  | the feet of Ta psin untiring |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Trajectory |

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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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