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title: But their ravenous maws unappeased by the blood and the flesh of the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: But their ravenous maws unappeased by the blood and the flesh of their fellows, To the cold wind their muzzles they raised, and the trail to the oak-tree they followed. Who acts: ravenous maws, wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 66

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But their ravenous maws unappeased by the blood and the flesh of their fellows, To the cold wind their muzzles they raised, and the trail to the oak-tree they followed.

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**Who acts:** ravenous maws, wolves · **What happens:** unappeas, raise, follow · **To what, where:** cold wind, oak tree

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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 (ravenous maws, 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:pg8122:14:66
# text = But their ravenous maws unappeased by the blood and the flesh of their fellows, To the cold wind their muzzles they raised, and the trail to the oak-tree they followed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ravenous	ravenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maws	maw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	unappeased	unappeas	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	To	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **unappeas** | participle | wolves's ravenous maws |  |  |  |  | by the blood and the flesh of wolves's fellows; the cold wind and wolves's muzzles *obl:agent*; the trail to the oak tree *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | past | wolves *= wolf* | the cold wind and wolves's muzzles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | wolves *= wolf* | the oak tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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