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title: From the wars with triumph burning, from the chase of bison fleet, T… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the wars with triumph burning, from the chase of bison fleet, To his lodge the brave returning, spread his trophies at her feet. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 11

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From the wars with triumph burning, from the chase of bison fleet, To his lodge the brave returning, spread his trophies at her feet.

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**What happens:** spread, chase · **To what, where:** trophies, wars, bison fleet

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8122:17:11
# text = From the wars with triumph burning, from the chase of bison fleet, To his lodge the brave returning, spread his trophies at her feet.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	To	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	returning	returning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past |  | beaver's trophies |  | the wars with triumph burning from the chase of bison fleet and beaver's lodge |  | at Sâpa's feet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent trophy=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **chase** |  |  | bison fleet and beaver's lodge |  |  |  |  | nom chase «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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