Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 52

When he dances the dance of red war all the hungry wolves howl by the Big Sea, [b] For they scent on the south-wind afar their feast on the bones of Ojibways."

Who acts: Tamdóka, hungry wolves · What happens: dance, howl · To what, where: dance, red war

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, hungry wolves), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 dances	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dances	nsubj
3	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 howl	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dance	det
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dances	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 war	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 war	amod
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wolves	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolves	det
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wolves	amod
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 howl	nsubj
13	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 Sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sea	det
16	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sea	compound
17	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 howl	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scent	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	20 b	punct
20	b	b	NUM	_	24 scent	discourse
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	20 b	punct
22	For	for	ADP	_	24 scent	case
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 scent	nsubj
24	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 howl	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	30 afar	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 afar	det
27	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wind	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 south	punct
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 afar	compound
30	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scent	nmod
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 feast	nmod:poss
32	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 afar	appos
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 bones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bones	det
35	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feast	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Ojibways	case
37	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bones	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 howl	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 howl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance	present	Tamdóka	the dance of red war		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme
2	howl	present	all hungry wolves		by the Big Sea; for scent Wakán on the wind afar	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
3	dance			red war		nom dance «communication 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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 52