Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 62

But hark! on the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger-howls of the gray wolves!

Who acts: you, gray wolves · What happens: hark, howl · To what, where: keen frosty air wind

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 (you, gray 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 hark	cc
2	hark	hark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hark	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
6	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wind	amod
7	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wind	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wind	compound
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hark	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 howls	det
11	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 howls	amod
12	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howls	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 hunger	punct
14	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wind	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 wolves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wolves	det
17	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wolves	compound
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 howls	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hark	imperative	you not said here			the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger howls of the gray wolves			tree rules
2	howl		the gray wolves						nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 62