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title: But his hunters chafed at the long delay, For the swarthy bison were… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But his hunters chafed at the long delay, For the swarthy bison were far away, And the brave young chief from the lodge departed. Who acts: hunters, swarthy bison, brave young chief. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 139

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But his hunters chafed at the long delay, For the swarthy bison were far away, And the brave young chief from the lodge departed.

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**Who acts:** hunters, swarthy bison, brave young chief · **What happens:** chafe, be, depart · **To what, where:** long delay

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, swarthy bison, brave young chief), 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:pg8122:7:139
# text = But his hunters chafed at the long delay, For the swarthy bison were far away, And the brave young chief from the lodge departed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chafed	chafe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chafe** | past | cheek's hunters |  |  | the long delay |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the swarthy bison |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | past | the brave young chief from the lodge |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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