Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 51

As light as the foot-steps of dawn are the feet of the stealthy Tamdóka, And he fears not the Máza Wakán; [a] he is sly as the fox of the forest.

Who acts: Tamdóka · What happens: be, not fear, step · To what, where: feet, Máza Wakán, dawn

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamdóka), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 light	case
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feet	obl
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 steps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 foot	punct
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 feet	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feet	det
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Tamdóka	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tamdóka	det
15	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Tamdóka	amod
16	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 feet	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fears	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 fears	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fears	nsubj
20	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 feet	parataxis
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fears	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wakán	det
23	Máza	Máza	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Wakán	compound
24	Wakán	Wakán	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fears	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sly	punct
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 sly	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sly	det
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 a	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sly	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sly	cop
31	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fears	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 fox	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fox	det
34	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sly	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 forest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fox	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 feet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the feet	as light as the foot steps of dawn; of the stealthy Tamdóka	tree rules
2	not fear	present	Tamdóka	the Máza Wakán		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	Tamdóka		as the fox of the forest; sly property	tree rules
4	step			dawn		nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 51