Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 86

Now DuLuth's brawny boatmen pursue the swift gliding bark of Tamdóka; And hardly the red braves out-do the stout, steady oars of the white men.

Who acts: brawny boatmen, swift, red braves · What happens: pursue, glide, do · To what, where: swift, bark, stout

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 (brawny boatmen, swift, red braves), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pursue	advmod
2	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boatmen	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 DuLuth	case
4	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boatmen	amod
5	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pursue	nsubj
6	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swift	det
8	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursue	obj
9	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 swift	acl
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gliding	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Tamdóka	case
12	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bark	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 braves	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 braves	cc
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 braves	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 braves	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 braves	amod
18	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pursue	obl
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 do	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 braves	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stout	det
23	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 oars	punct
25	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 oars	amod
26	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 braves	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 oars	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pursue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pursue	present	DuLuth's brawny boatmen	the swift	now	the red braves and steady oars of the white men obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swift=Theme
2	glide	gerund	the swift not said here	bark of Tamdóka			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Agent
3	do	infinitive	the red braves and steady oars of the white men not said here	the stout			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stout=Eventuality

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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 86