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title: Hunter, swift was he and cunning, caught the beaver, slew the bear,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hunter, swift was he and cunning, caught the beaver, slew the bear, Overtook the roebuck running, dragged the panther from his lair. Who acts: Hunter swift, cunning, roebuck. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 6

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Hunter, swift was he and cunning, caught the beaver, slew the bear, Overtook the roebuck running, dragged the panther from his lair.

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**Who acts:** Hunter swift, cunning, roebuck · **What happens:** be, catch, slay, run, drag · **To what, where:** cunning, beaver, bear, panther, lair

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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 (Hunter swift, cunning, roebuck), 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:pg8122:17:6
# text = Hunter, swift was he and cunning, caught the beaver, slew the bear, Overtook the roebuck running, dragged the panther from his lair.
1	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Overtook	Overtook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hunter swift | cunning |  |  |  | Wanâta *nsubj*; Overtook *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | cunning *not said here* | the beaver |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | past | cunning *not said here* | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | the roebuck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **drag** | past | Hunter swift *not said here* | the panther |  | Wanâta's lair |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent panther=Theme from lair=Initial\_Location |

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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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