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title: As he followed the trail of the buffalo, From the tees of Kapóza a m… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: As he followed the trail of the buffalo, From the tees of Kapóza a maiden, lo, Came running in haste o'er the drifted snow. Who acts: Tis, Kapóza. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 43

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As he followed the trail of the buffalo, From the tees of Kapóza a maiden, lo, Came running in haste o'er the drifted snow.

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**Who acts:** Tis, Kapóza · **What happens:** follow, come, run, drift · **To what, where:** trail, haste

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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 (Tis, Kapóza), 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:pg8122:9:43
# text = As he followed the trail of the buffalo, From the tees of Kapóza a maiden, lo, Came running in haste o'er the drifted snow.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	From	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tees	tee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kapóza	Kapóza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Tis | the trail of the buffalo |  |  |  | the tees of Kapóza *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Kapóza *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Kapóza *not said here* |  |  | haste |  | o'er the drifted snow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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