Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 10

To the southward the buffaloes fled, and the white rabbits hid in their burrows; On the bare sacred mounds of the dead howled the gaunt, hungry wolves in the night-time.

Who acts: buffaloes, white rabbits, bare sacred mounds · What happens: flee, hide, howl · To what, where: southward, burrows, gaunt hungry wolves

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffaloes, white rabbits, bare sacred mounds), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 southward	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 southward	det
3	southward	southward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffaloes	det
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hid	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rabbits	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rabbits	amod
11	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hid	nsubj
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fled	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 burrows	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 burrows	nmod:poss
15	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hid	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 howled	punct
17	On	on	ADP	_	21 mounds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mounds	det
19	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mounds	amod
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mounds	amod
21	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 howled	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 dead	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dead	det
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mounds	nmod
25	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fled	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wolves	det
27	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wolves	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gaunt	punct
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wolves	amod
30	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 howled	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 time	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 time	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 time	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 night	punct
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 howled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	flee	past	the buffaloes		the southward		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to southward=Initial_Location
2	hide	past	the white rabbits		rabbits's burrows		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location
3	howl	past	the bare sacred mounds of the dead	the gaunt hungry wolves		time	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

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 7, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 10