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title: It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer, and so swift that neith… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer, and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it. Who acts: cabri, horse. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 149

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It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer, and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it.

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**Who acts:** cabri, horse · **What happens:** be, swift, overtake · **To what, where:** cabri

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cabri, horse), 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:pg8122:21:149
# text = It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer, and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | cabri |  |  |  |  | of the goat kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **swift** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **overtake** | can | neither horse nor dog | cabri |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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