Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 33

Like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe, That grappled breaks from the dread assault, Dash the warriors wild on Wiwâstè's trail.

Who acts: That, warriors · What happens: grapple, dash, wild · To what, where: breaks, dread assault, trail

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, warriors), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	2 wolves	case
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grappled	obl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 track	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 track	det
5	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wolves	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 doe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doe	det
8	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doe	compound
9	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 track	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wolves	punct
11	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 grappled	nsubj
12	grappled	grapple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grappled	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 assault	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 assault	det
16	dread	dread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 assault	amod
17	assault	assault	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grappled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Dash	punct
19	Dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grappled	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 warriors	det
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wild	nsubj
22	wild	wild	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Dash	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 trail	case
24	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 trail	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Wiwâstè	case
26	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wild	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grappled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grapple	past	That	breaks	the dread assault	like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme
2	dash	infinitive	That not said here				tree rules
3	wild	present	the warriors		Wiwâstè's trail		tree rules

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 2, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 33