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title: Swiftly sped the tawny runner o'er the pathless prairies then, Now t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Swiftly sped the tawny runner o'er the pathless prairies then, Now the iron-reindeer sooner carries weal or woe to men. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 13

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Swiftly sped the tawny runner o'er the pathless prairies then, Now the iron-reindeer sooner carries weal or woe to men.

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**What happens:** speed, carry · **To what, where:** tawny runner, weal, men

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. 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:pg8122:4:13
# text = Swiftly sped the tawny runner o'er the pathless prairies then, Now the iron-reindeer sooner carries weal or woe to men.
1	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pathless	pathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	weal	weal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past |  | the tawny runner |  |  | then | o'er the pathless prairies; swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | present |  | weal or woe | men |  | now | soon *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weal=Theme to man=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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