Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 15

Like cabris [80] when white wolves pursue, fled the four yet remaining Dakotas; Through forest and fen-land they flew, and wild terror howled on their footsteps.

Who acts: white wolves, wolves · What happens: pursue, flee, remain, fly, howl · To what, where: four, Dakotas, fen land, wild terror, footsteps

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white wolves, 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	Like	like	ADP	_	2 cabris	case
2	cabris	cabris	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fled	obl
3	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 80	punct
4	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 cabris	appos
5	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 80	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 pursue	mark
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wolves	amod
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pursue	nsubj
9	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 80	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cabris	punct
11	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 four	det
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 fled	obj
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	15 remaining	cc
15	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 four	conj
16	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 remaining	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 forest	punct
18	Through	through	ADP	_	19 forest	case
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fled	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 land	cc
21	fen	fen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 land	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fen	punct
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forest	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 land	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 terror	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 terror	cc
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 terror	amod
29	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fled	conj
30	howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 terror	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 footsteps	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 footsteps	nmod:poss
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 howled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pursue	present	white wolves				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	flee	past		the four		like cabris; forest and fen land conj; wild terror conj	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme four=Initial_Location
3	remain	gerund		Dakotas			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dakota=Attribute
4	fly	past	wolves = wolf	fen land not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme
5	howl	participle		wild terror not said here	wolves's footsteps		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on footstep=Location

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 6, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 15