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title: The bow of Ta-té-psin she took and his arrows, And afar o'er the dee… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The bow of Ta-té-psin she took and his arrows, And afar o'er the deep, drifted snow, through the forest, she sped on her snow-shoes. Who acts: bow, Ta. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 25

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The bow of Ta-té-psin she took and his arrows, And afar o'er the deep, drifted snow, through the forest, she sped on her snow-shoes.

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**Who acts:** bow, Ta · **What happens:** take, drift, speed · **To what, where:** arrows, forest, snow shoes

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, Ta), 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:pg8122:14:25
# text = The bow of Ta-té-psin she took and his arrows, And afar o'er the deep, drifted snow, through the forest, she sped on her snow-shoes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	Ta	Ta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	té	té	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	psin	psin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **take** | past | the bow of té psin  Ta | bow's arrows |  | the forest |  | Ta *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 2 | **drift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **speed** | past | Ta |  |  | Ta's snow shoes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=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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