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title: With lance and arrow they slay and slay; And the welkin rings to the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: With lance and arrow they slay and slay; And the welkin rings to the gladsome shout-- To the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós, [34]-- And dark and dead, on the bloody snows, Lie the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes. Who acts: flankers, welkin. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gord
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 86

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With lance and arrow they slay and slay; And the welkin rings to the gladsome shout-- To the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós, \[34\]-- And dark and dead, on the bloody snows, Lie the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes.

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**Who acts:** flankers, welkin · **What happens:** slay, ring, lie · **To what, where:** swarthy heaps

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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 (flankers, welkin), 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:pg8122:7:86
# text = With lance and arrow they slay and slay; And the welkin rings to the gladsome shout-- To the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós, [34]-- And dark and dead, on the bloody snows, Lie the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slay	slay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slay	slay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	welkin	welkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	To	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Inâs	Inâs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Ihós	Ihós	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **slay** | present | flankers *= flanker* |  |  |  |  | with lance and arrow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lance=Instrument |
| 2 | **slay** | present | flankers *= flanker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ring** | present | the welkin |  |  |  |  | to the gladsome shout; to the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | present | flankers *= flanker* *not said here* | the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=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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