Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 85

In the famine of winter the wolf shall prowl, And scratch the snow from the heap of stones, And sit in the gathering storm and howl, On the frozen mound, for Wakâwa's bones.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: prowl, scratch, sit, gather, howl, freeze · To what, where: famine, snow, heap, gathering storm, frozen mound

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 famine	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 famine	det
3	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prowl	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 famine	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prowl	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prowl	aux
9	prowl	prowl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scratch	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 scratch	cc
12	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prowl	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scratch	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 heap	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heap	det
17	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scratch	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 stones	case
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heap	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 sit	cc
22	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prowl	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 storm	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 storm	det
25	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 storm	amod
26	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sit	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 howl	cc
28	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mound	punct
30	On	on	ADP	_	33 mound	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mound	det
32	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 mound	amod
33	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 howl	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bones	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 bones	case
36	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 bones	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 Wakâwa	case
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 mound	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prowl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prowl	shall	the wolf		the famine of winter	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in famine=Trajectory
2	scratch	infinitive	the wolf not said here	the snow	the heap of stones	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent snow=Patient from heap=Source
3	sit	present	the wolf not said here		the gathering storm	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in storm=Location
4	gather	gerund				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	howl	present	the wolf not said here		the frozen mound for Wakâwa's bones	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mound=Location
6	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 1, sentence 85

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 85