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title: Like cabris [80] when white wolves pursue, fled the four yet remaini… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like cabris [80] when white wolves pursue, fled the four yet remaining Dakotas; Through forest and fen-land they flew, and wild terror howled on their footsteps. Who acts: white wolves, wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 15

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Like cabris \[80\] when white wolves pursue, fled the four yet remaining Dakotas; Through forest and fen-land they flew, and wild terror howled on their footsteps.

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**Who acts:** white wolves, wolves · **What happens:** pursue, flee, remain, fly, howl · **To what, where:** four, Dakotas, fen land, wild terror, footsteps

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white wolves, 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:pg8122:13:15
# text = Like cabris [80] when white wolves pursue, fled the four yet remaining Dakotas; Through forest and fen-land they flew, and wild terror howled on their footsteps.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cabris	cabris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	fen	fen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
30	howled	howl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | present | white wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flee** | past |  | the four |  |  |  | like cabris; forest and fen land *conj*; wild terror *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme four=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **remain** | gerund |  | Dakotas |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dakota=Attribute |
| 4 | **fly** | past | wolves *= wolf* | fen land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |
| 5 | **howl** | participle |  | wild terror *not said here* |  | wolves's footsteps |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on footstep=Location |

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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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