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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 67

Round and round it they howled for the prey, madly leaping and snarling and snapping; But the brave maiden's keen arrows slay, till the dead number more than the living.

Who acts: wolves, keen arrows · What happens: round, howl, leap, snarl, snap, slay · To what, where: flesh

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 (wolves, keen arrows), 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

advmodccconjobjnsubjcasedetoblpunctadvmodadvclccconjccconjpunctccdetamodnmod:posscaseamodnsubjconjpunctcasedetamodconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootRoundADVandCCONJroundVERBitPRONtheyPRONhowledVERBforADPtheDETpreyNOUN,PUNCTmadlyADVleapingVERBandCCONJsnarlingVERBandCCONJsnappingVERB;PUNCTButCCONJtheDETbraveADJmaidenNOUN'sPARTkeenADJarrowsNOUNslayVERB,PUNCTtillADPtheDETdeadADJnumberNOUNmoreADVthanADPtheDETlivingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RoundroundADV_6 howledadvmod
2andandCCONJ_3 roundcc
3roundroundVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Roundconj
4ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 roundobj
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 howlednsubj
6howledhowlVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7forforADP_9 preycase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 preydet
9preypreyNOUNNumber=Sing6 howledobl
10,,PUNCT_12 leapingpunct
11madlymadlyADV_12 leapingadvmod
12leapingleapVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 howledadvcl
13andandCCONJ_14 snarlingcc
14snarlingsnarlVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 leapingconj
15andandCCONJ_16 snappingcc
16snappingsnapVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 snarlingconj
17;;PUNCT_25 slaypunct
18ButbutCCONJ_25 slaycc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 maidendet
20bravebraveADJDegree=Pos21 maidenamod
21maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing24 arrowsnmod:poss
22's'sPART_21 maidencase
23keenkeenADJDegree=Pos24 arrowsamod
24arrowsarrowNOUNNumber=Plur25 slaynsubj
25slayslayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 howledconj
26,,PUNCT_30 numberpunct
27tilltillADP_30 numbercase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 numberdet
29deaddeadADJDegree=Pos30 numberamod
30numbernumberNOUNNumber=Sing25 slayconj
31moremoreADVDegree=Cmp25 slayadvmod
32thanthanADP_34 livingcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 livingdet
34livinglivingNOUNNumber=Sing31 moreobl
35..PUNCT_6 howledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1roundinfinitivewolves = wolf not said herefleshvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2howlpastwolves = wolffor the prey; round propertyvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for prey=Recipient
3leapgerundwolves = wolf not said heremadly propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4snarlgerundwolves = wolf not said herevn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5snapgerundwolves = wolf not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6slaypresentthe brave maiden's keen arrowsthe dead number conjvn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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