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title: In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flew, Flashed… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flew, Flashed his fiery eyes with anger,--many a haughty foe he slew. Who acts: fatal arrows, many, Wanâta, battle. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 5

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In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flew, Flashed his fiery eyes with anger,--many a haughty foe he slew.

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**Who acts:** fatal arrows, many, Wanâta, battle · **What happens:** fly, flash, foe, slay, din · **To what, where:** din, fiery eyes, haughty foe

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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: who acts (fatal arrows, many, Wanâta, battle), 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:pg8122:17:5
# text = In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flew, Flashed his fiery eyes with anger,--many a haughty foe he slew.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	clangor	clangor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Wanâta's fatal arrows |  |  | the battle's din and clangor |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in din=Location |
| 2 | **flash** | past | Wanâta's fatal arrows *not said here* | Wanâta's fiery eyes |  |  |  | with anger | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **foe** |  | many |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | past | Wanâta | a haughty foe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient |
| 5 | **din** |  | the battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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