--- title: And here to the Searcher-of-hearts --fierce Tá-ku Skan-skán, [51] th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: And here to the Searcher-of-hearts --fierce Tá-ku Skan-skán, [51] the avenger, Who dwells in the uttermost parts --in the earth and the blue, starry ether, Ever watching, with all-seeing eyes, the deeds of the wives and the warriors, As an osprey afar in the skies, sees the fish as they swim in the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/) / 83 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 83 And here to the Searcher-of-hearts --fierce Tá-ku Skan-skán, \[51\] the avenger, Who dwells in the uttermost parts --in the earth and the blue, starry ether, Ever watching, with all-seeing eyes, the deeds of the wives and the warriors, As an osprey afar in the skies, sees the fish as they swim in the waters, Oft spread they the bison-tongue feast, and singing preferred their petitions, Till the Day-Spirit \[70\] rose in the East --in the red, rosy robes of the morning, To sail o'er the sea of the skies, to his lodge in the land of the shadows, Where the black winged tornadoes \[b\] arise --rushing loud from the mouths of their caverns. **Who acts:** avenger, warriors, Oft, Day Spirit, black, lodge · **What happens:** dwell, watch, see, swim, spread, feast · **To what, where:** uttermost parts, seeing eyes, fish, waters, petitions, East 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 (avenger, warriors, Oft, Day Spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:9:83 # text = And here to the Searcher-of-hearts --fierce Tá-ku Skan-skán, [51] the avenger, Who dwells in the uttermost parts --in the earth and the blue, starry ether, Ever watching, with all-seeing eyes, the deeds of the wives and the warriors, As an osprey afar in the skies, sees the fish as they swim in the waters, Oft spread they the bison-tongue feast, and singing preferred their petitions, Till the Day-Spirit [70] rose in the East --in the red, rosy robes of the morning, To sail o'er the sea of the skies, to his lodge in the land of the shadows, Where the black winged tornadoes [b] arise --rushing loud from the mouths of their caverns. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 Searcher Searcher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - 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PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dwell** | present | the avenger | | | the uttermost parts | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | the avenger *not said here* | all seeing eyes and the deeds of the wives and the warriors | | | ever | as a osprey afar in the skies | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent eye=Theme as afar=Value | | 3 | **see** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | present | the avenger *not said here* | the fish | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | | 5 | **swim** | present | warriors *= warrior* | | | the waters | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 6 | **spread** | past | Oft | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **feast** | | warriors *= warrior* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **prefer** | past | | warriors's petitions | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer petition=Stimulus | | 10 | **rise** | past | the Day Spirit | | | the East | | in the red rosy robes of the morning | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | | 11 | **sail** | to-infinitive | the Day Spirit *not said here* | | | | | o'er the sea of the skies | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **wing** | past | the black | tornadoes | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme tornado=Trajectory | | 13 | **arise** | present | Oft's lodge in the land of the shadows | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 14 | **rush** | gerund | the Day Spirit *not said here* | | | the mouths of warriors's caverns | | loud *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory | | 16 | **petition** | | warriors *= warrior* | | | | | | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/84/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)