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title: Then swift through the night ran her feet, and she trailed the sleek… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then swift through the night ran her feet, and she trailed the sleek red-deer behind her. Who acts: you, night, Winona. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 60

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Then swift through the night ran her feet, and she trailed the sleek red-deer behind her.

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**Who acts:** you, night, Winona · **What happens:** swift, run, trail · **To what, where:** feet, sleek red deer

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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 (you, night, Winona), 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:pg8122:14:60
# text = Then swift through the night ran her feet, and she trailed the sleek red-deer behind her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trailed	trail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swift** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | the night | Winona's feet |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Trajectory |
| 3 | **trail** | past | Winona | the sleek red deer |  |  |  | behind swift | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme behind she=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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