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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 57

Now they turn on the post at the lake, --now they run full abreast on the home-stretch; Side by side they contend for the stake, for a long mile or more on the prairie.

Who acts: feet · What happens: turn, run, side, contend · To what, where: post, home stretch, side

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 (feet), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctpunctadvmodnsubjconjxcompadvmodcasedetcompoundpunctoblpunctconjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctcasedetamodparataxisccconjcasedetnmodpunctrootNowADVtheyPRONturnVERBonADPtheDETpostNOUNatADPtheDETlakeNOUN,PUNCT--PUNCTnowADVtheyPRONrunVERBfullADJabreastADVonADPtheDEThomeNOUN-PUNCTstretchNOUN;PUNCTSideVERBbyADPsideNOUNtheyPRONcontendVERBforADPtheDETstakeNOUN,PUNCTforADPaDETlongADJmileNOUNorCCONJmoreADJonADPtheDETprairieNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 turnadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 turnnsubj
3turnturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ononADP_6 postcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 postdet
6postpostNOUNNumber=Sing3 turnobl
7atatADP_9 lakecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 lakedet
9lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing3 turnobl
10,,PUNCT_14 runpunct
11----PUNCT_14 runpunct
12nownowADVPronType=Dem14 runadvmod
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 runnsubj
14runrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 turnconj
15fullfullADJDegree=Pos14 runxcomp
16abreastabreastADV_14 runadvmod
17ononADP_21 stretchcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 stretchdet
19homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing21 stretchcompound
20--PUNCT_19 homepunct
21stretchstretchNOUNNumber=Sing14 runobl
22;;PUNCT_23 Sidepunct
23SidesideVERBVerbForm=Inf3 turnconj
24bybyADP_25 sidecase
25sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing23 Sideobl
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 contendnsubj
27contendcontendVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 sideacl:relcl
28forforADP_30 stakecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 stakedet
30stakestakeNOUNNumber=Sing27 contendobl
31,,PUNCT_35 milepunct
32forforADP_35 milecase
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 miledet
34longlongADJDegree=Pos35 mileamod
35milemileNOUNNumber=Sing3 turnparataxis
36ororCCONJ_37 morecc
37moremoreADJDegree=Cmp35 mileconj
38ononADP_40 prairiecase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 prairiedet
40prairieprairieNOUNNumber=Sing35 milenmod
41..PUNCT_3 turnpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turnpresentfeet = footthe postnowat the lake; a long mile on the prairie parataxisvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on post=Source at lake=Trajectory
2runpresentfeet = footthe home stretchnowabreast, full propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stretch=Trajectory
3sideinfinitivefeet = foot not said hereby sidevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4contendpresentfeet = footside not said herefor the staketree rules

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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