Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 82

The shouts of the riders rang loud and clear, As their frothing steeds to the chase they spurred.

Who acts: rider · What happens: shout, ring, spur · To what, where: chase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rider), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shouts	det
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 riders	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 riders	det
5	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rang	obl
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shouts	ccomp
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rang	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clear	cc
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loud	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 steeds	punct
11	As	as	ADP	_	14 steeds	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 steeds	nmod:poss
13	frothing	frothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 steeds	compound
14	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rang	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 chase	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chase	det
17	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spurred	nsubj
19	spurred	spur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chase	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shouts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ring	past			of the riders; as rider's frothing steeds; to the chase; loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spur	past	rider	the chase not said here		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 82