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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 3

He joined in the sports and the chase; with the hunters he followed the bison, And swift were his feet in the race when the red elk they ran on the prairies.

Who acts: esteem, red elk · What happens: join, follow, be, run · To what, where: bison, swift feet, race, prairies

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (esteem, red elk), 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

nsubjcasedetoblccdetconjpunctcasedetoblnsubjconjdetobjpunctcccompoundcopnmod:possparataxiscasedetnmodadvmoddetamodnsubjnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootHePRONjoinedVERBinADPtheDETsportsNOUNandCCONJtheDETchaseNOUN;PUNCTwithADPtheDEThuntersNOUNhePRONfollowedVERBtheDETbisonNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJswiftNOUNwereAUXhisPRONfeetNOUNinADPtheDETraceNOUNwhenADVtheDETredADJelkNOUNtheyPRONranVERBonADPtheDETprairiesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 joinednsubj
2joinedjoinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ininADP_5 sportscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sportsdet
5sportssportNOUNNumber=Plur2 joinedobl
6andandCCONJ_8 chasecc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 chasedet
8chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing5 sportsconj
9;;PUNCT_14 followedpunct
10withwithADP_12 hunterscase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 huntersdet
12huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur14 followedobl
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 followednsubj
14followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 joinedconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 bisondet
16bisonbisonNOUNNumber=Sing14 followedobj
17,,PUNCT_22 feetpunct
18AndandCCONJ_22 feetcc
19swiftswiftNOUNNumber=Sing22 feetcompound
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 feetcop
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 feetnmod:poss
22feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur2 joinedparataxis
23ininADP_25 racecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 racedet
25raceraceNOUNNumber=Sing22 feetnmod
26whenwhenADVPronType=Int31 ranadvmod
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 elkdet
28redredADJDegree=Pos29 elkamod
29elkelkNOUNNumber=Plur31 rannsubj
30theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs31 rannsubj
31ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 feetadvcl
32ononADP_34 prairiescase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 prairiesdet
34prairiesprairieNOUNNumber=Plur31 ranobl
35..PUNCT_2 joinedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1joinpastesteemin the sports and the chasevn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sport=Theme
2followpastesteemthe bisonwith the huntersvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=Theme
3is apastesteem's swift feetthe raceesteem nmod:posstree rules
4runpastthe red elkthe prairieselk nsubjvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Trajectory

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.

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