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title: Up galloped the chief of the band, and lo-- The clutched knife dropp… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Up galloped the chief of the band, and lo-- The clutched knife dropped from her trembling hand; She uttered a cry and she swooned away; For there; on his steed in the blaze of day, On the boundless prairie, so far away, With his burnished lance and his feathers gay, Sat the manly form of her own Cha
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 39

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Up galloped the chief of the band, and lo-- The clutched knife dropped from her trembling hand; She uttered a cry and she swooned away; For there; on his steed in the blaze of day, On the boundless prairie, so far away, With his burnished lance and his feathers gay, Sat the manly form of her own Chaskè!

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**Who acts:** Up, clutched knife, day · **What happens:** gallop, clutch, drop, tremble, utter, swoon away · **To what, where:** chief, trembling hand, cry, own Chaskè

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Up, clutched knife, day), 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:pg8122:9:39
# text = Up galloped the chief of the band, and lo-- The clutched knife dropped from her trembling hand; She uttered a cry and she swooned away; For there; on his steed in the blaze of day, On the boundless prairie, so far away, With his burnished lance and his feathers gay, Sat the manly form of her own Chaskè!
1	Up	Up	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	clutched	clutch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	swooned	swoon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	For	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	On	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	With	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
58	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	appos	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
66	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | Up | the chief of the band |  |  |  | cry's steed in the blaze of day and the boundless prairie and cry's burnished lance and cry's feathers *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Agent |
| 2 | **clutch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drop** | past | the clutched knife |  |  | Up's trembling hand |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hand=Trajectory |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Up | a cry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 6 | **swoon away** | past | Up |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **blaze** |  | day |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **form** |  |  | Up's own Chaskè |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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