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title: [c] Wolves sometimes attack people at night but rarely if ever in th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [c] Wolves sometimes attack people at night but rarely if ever in the day time. Who acts: c 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 73

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\[c\] Wolves sometimes attack people at night but rarely if ever in the day time.

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**Who acts:** c Wolves · **What happens:** attack · **To what, where:** people

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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 (c 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:pg8122:14:73
# text = [c] Wolves sometimes attack people at night but rarely if ever in the day time.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | c Wolves | people |  |  | night | sometimes *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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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