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title: They charge on the riders and runners stanch, And a dying steed in t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They charge on the riders and runners stanch, And a dying steed in the snow-drift rolls, While the rider, flung to the frozen ground Escapes the horns by a panther's bound. Who acts: bulls, riders, dying steed. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--t
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 84

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They charge on the riders and runners stanch, And a dying steed in the snow-drift rolls, While the rider, flung to the frozen ground Escapes the horns by a panther's bound.

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**Who acts:** bulls, riders, dying steed · **What happens:** charge, stanch, die, fling, freeze, escape · **To what, where:** riders, dying steed, frozen ground, horns

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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 (bulls, riders, dying steed), 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:pg8122:7:84
# text = They charge on the riders and runners stanch, And a dying steed in the snow-drift rolls, While the rider, flung to the frozen ground Escapes the horns by a panther's bound.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	stanch	stanch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	drift	drift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	Escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | bulls *= bull* |  |  | the riders and runners |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rider=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stanch** | present | the riders and runners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fling** | participle |  | a dying steed in the drift rolls and the rider *not said here* |  | the frozen ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to ground=Destination |
| 5 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **escape** | present | a dying steed in the drift rolls and the rider | the horns |  |  |  | by a panther's bound | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horn=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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