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title: When he dances the dance of red war all the hungry wolves howl by th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When he dances the dance of red war all the hungry wolves howl by the Big Sea, [b] For they scent on the south-wind afar their feast on the bones of Ojibways." Who acts: Tamdóka, hungry wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 52

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When he dances the dance of red war all the hungry wolves howl by the Big Sea, \[b\] For they scent on the south-wind afar their feast on the bones of Ojibways."

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**Who acts:** Tamdóka, hungry wolves · **What happens:** dance, howl · **To what, where:** dance, red war

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamdóka, hungry wolves), 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:pg8122:12:53
# text = When he dances the dance of red war all the hungry wolves howl by the Big Sea, [b] For they scent on the south-wind afar their feast on the bones of Ojibways."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	howl	howl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	b	b	NUM	LS	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	For	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present | Tamdóka | the dance of red war |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme |
| 2 | **howl** | present | all hungry wolves |  |  |  |  | by the Big Sea; for scent  Wakán on the wind afar | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
| 3 | **dance** |  |  | red war |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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