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title: Swift the strong hunters clomb as she sang, and the foremost of all… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Swift the strong hunters clomb as she sang, and the foremost of all was Tamdóka; From crag to crag upward he sprang; like a panther he leaped to the summit. Who acts: you, strong hunters, Winona, crag. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 11

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Swift the strong hunters clomb as she sang, and the foremost of all was Tamdóka; From crag to crag upward he sprang; like a panther he leaped to the summit.

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**Who acts:** you, strong hunters, Winona, crag, Tamdóka · **What happens:** swift, clomb, sing, be, spring, leap · **To what, where:** Tamdóka, summit

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, strong hunters, Winona, crag), 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:pg8122:15:11
# text = Swift the strong hunters clomb as she sang, and the foremost of all was Tamdóka; From crag to crag upward he sprang; like a panther he leaped to the summit.
1	Swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	foremost	foremost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	From	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	crag	crag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	crag	crag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **swift** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clomb** |  | strong hunters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Winona |  |  |  |  | foremost *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | all Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spring** | past | crag to crag |  |  |  |  | Tamdóka *nsubj*; upward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leap** | past | Tamdóka |  |  | the summit |  | like a panther | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to summit=Destination |

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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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