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title: The unscalped corpse of their honored chief His warriors snatched fr… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The unscalped corpse of their honored chief His warriors snatched from the yelling pack, And homeward fled on their forest track With their bloody burden and load of grief. Who acts: unscalped corpse, hilt. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins.,
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 100

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The unscalped corpse of their honored chief His warriors snatched from the yelling pack, And homeward fled on their forest track With their bloody burden and load of grief.

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**Who acts:** unscalped corpse, hilt · **What happens:** honor, snatch, flee, burden · **To what, where:** unscalped corpse, yelling pack, homeward, forest track

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unscalped corpse, hilt), 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:pg8122:8:100
# text = The unscalped corpse of their honored chief His warriors snatched from the yelling pack, And homeward fled on their forest track With their bloody burden and load of grief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unscalped	unscalped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	chief	chief	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	yelling	yelling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
18	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	With	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honor** | participle |  | the unscalped corpse *not said here* |  |  |  | chief corpse's warriors; hilt *nmod:poss* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snatch** | past | the unscalped corpse |  |  | the yelling pack |  | homeward *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pack=Source |
| 3 | **flee** | participle |  | homeward *not said here* |  | hilt's forest track with hilt's bloody burden and load of grief |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burden** |  | hilt |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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