Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 66

But their ravenous maws unappeased by the blood and the flesh of their fellows, To the cold wind their muzzles they raised, and the trail to the oak-tree they followed.

Who acts: ravenous maws, wolves · What happens: unappeas, raise, follow · To what, where: cold wind, oak tree

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 (ravenous maws, 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	_	5 unappeased	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 maws	nmod:poss
3	ravenous	ravenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maws	amod
4	maws	maw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unappeased	nsubj
5	unappeased	unappeas	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 blood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blood	det
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unappeased	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flesh	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flesh	det
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blood	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fellows	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fellows	nmod:poss
14	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flesh	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wind	punct
16	To	to	ADP	_	19 wind	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wind	amod
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unappeased	obl:agent
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 muzzles	nmod:poss
21	muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wind	conj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 raised	nsubj
23	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wind	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trail	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trail	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trail	det
27	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unappeased	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
30	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tree	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 oak	punct
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trail	nmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 followed	nsubj
34	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tree	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unappeased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unappeas	participle	wolves's ravenous maws		by the blood and the flesh of wolves's fellows; the cold wind and wolves's muzzles obl:agent; the trail to the oak tree parataxis	tree rules
2	raise	past	wolves = wolf	the cold wind and wolves's muzzles not said here		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
3	follow	past	wolves = wolf	the oak tree not said here		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 66