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title: Like a Thunder-bird, roaring in wrath, flinging fire from his terrib… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a Thunder-bird, roaring in wrath, flinging fire from his terrible talons, It sends to their enemies death, in the flash of the fatal Wakándee." Who acts: Thunder bird, fire, canoes, fatal Wakándee. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., par
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 37

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Like a Thunder-bird, roaring in wrath, flinging fire from his terrible talons, It sends to their enemies death, in the flash of the fatal Wakándee."

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**Who acts:** Thunder bird, fire, canoes, fatal Wakándee · **What happens:** roar, fling, send, die, flash · **To what, where:** wrath, fire, terrible talons, enemies death

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder bird, fire, canoes, fatal Wakándee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:10:37
# text = Like a Thunder-bird, roaring in wrath, flinging fire from his terrible talons, It sends to their enemies death, in the flash of the fatal Wakándee."
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Wakándee	Wakándee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | gerund | a Thunder bird *not said here* |  |  | wrath |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wrath=Location |
| 2 | **fling** | gerund | a Thunder bird *not said here* | fire |  | Máza's terrible talons |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from talon=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **send** | present | fire |  |  | canoes's enemies death |  | like a Thunder bird; the flash of the fatal Wakándee *conj* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to death=Destination |
| 4 | **die** |  | canoes *= canoe* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **flash** |  | the fatal Wakándee |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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