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title: But hark! on the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger-howls of the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But hark! on the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger-howls of the gray wolves! Who acts: you, gray wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 62

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But hark! on the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger-howls of the gray wolves!

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**Who acts:** you, gray wolves · **What happens:** hark, howl · **To what, where:** keen frosty air wind

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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 (you, gray 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:pg8122:14:62
# text = But hark! on the keen frosty air wind the shrill hunger-howls of the gray wolves!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hark	hark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	howls	howl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hark** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the keen frosty air wind  the shrill hunger howls of the gray wolves |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **howl** |  | the gray wolves |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication 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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