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title: Round and round it they howled for the prey, madly leaping and snarl… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Round and round it they howled for the prey, madly leaping and snarling and snapping; But the brave maiden's keen arrows slay, till the dead number more than the living. Who acts: wolves, keen arrows. 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 67

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Round and round it they howled for the prey, madly leaping and snarling and snapping; But the brave maiden's keen arrows slay, till the dead number more than the living.

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**Who acts:** wolves, keen arrows · **What happens:** round, howl, leap, snarl, snap, slay · **To what, where:** flesh

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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 (wolves, keen arrows), 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:pg8122:14:67
# text = Round and round it they howled for the prey, madly leaping and snarling and snapping; But the brave maiden's keen arrows slay, till the dead number more than the living.
1	Round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slay	slay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | infinitive | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* | flesh |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **howl** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | for the prey; round *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for prey=Recipient |
| 3 | **leap** | gerund | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | madly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snarl** | gerund | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **snap** | gerund | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **slay** | present | the brave maiden's keen arrows |  |  |  |  | the dead number *conj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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