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title: To the southward the buffaloes fled, and the white rabbits hid in th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: To the southward the buffaloes fled, and the white rabbits hid in their burrows; On the bare sacred mounds of the dead howled the gaunt, hungry wolves in the night-time. Who acts: buffaloes, white rabbits, bare sacred mounds. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Fea
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 10

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To the southward the buffaloes fled, and the white rabbits hid in their burrows; On the bare sacred mounds of the dead howled the gaunt, hungry wolves in the night-time.

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**Who acts:** buffaloes, white rabbits, bare sacred mounds · **What happens:** flee, hide, howl · **To what, where:** southward, burrows, gaunt hungry wolves

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffaloes, white rabbits, bare sacred mounds), 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:pg8122:14:10
# text = To the southward the buffaloes fled, and the white rabbits hid in their burrows; On the bare sacred mounds of the dead howled the gaunt, hungry wolves in the night-time.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	southward	southward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	On	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | the buffaloes |  |  | the southward |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to southward=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | past | the white rabbits |  |  | rabbits's burrows |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location |
| 3 | **howl** | past | the bare sacred mounds of the dead | the gaunt hungry wolves |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |

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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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