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title: A fleet-footed hunter is he, and the good spirits feather his arrows… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: A fleet-footed hunter is he, and the good spirits feather his arrows; And the cold, cruel winter will be a feast-time instead of a famine." Who acts: footed hunter, cold cruel winter. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its depen
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 79

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A fleet-footed hunter is he, and the good spirits feather his arrows; And the cold, cruel winter will be a feast-time instead of a famine."

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**Who acts:** footed hunter, cold cruel winter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** spirits feather, feast time

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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 (footed hunter, cold cruel winter), 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:pg8122:13:79
# text = A fleet-footed hunter is he, and the good spirits feather his arrows; And the cold, cruel winter will be a feast-time instead of a famine."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 | **is a** | present | a footed hunter | spirits feather and a feast time |  |  |  | tee *nsubj*; tee's arrows *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | future | the cold cruel winter | a feast time |  |  |  | instead a famine | tree rules |

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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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